St. John Climacus - Sometimes called Scholasticus or the Sinaita. Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia on the sixth-century Syrian abbot of Mt. Sinai. He is called "Climacus" because he wrote the spiritual classic "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," "Klimax" being the Greek for "ladder." www.newadvent.org/cathen/08457a.htm
St. John Climacus, Abbot - From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints. www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CLIMACUS.htm
