Voluntary poverty, in the complete renunciation of all worldly possessions, would be difficult till there were monasteries; the examples of Origen, St. Cyprian, and Pamphilus were necessary to show that a monastic life was possible.
Inside, it houses silver crosses from the Neapolitan School dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, a 17th century wooden statue of Saint Pamphilus, and a wooden cross from the late 12th.
The manuscript was written by Evagrius and compared with Pamphilus copy at Caesarea.
David Hume adopted the evocative pseudonym Pamphilus for his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.