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John Cassian

c. 360 – c. 435 · Scythia Minor

Feast: 23 July (Catholic) · 29 February (Orthodox)

John Cassian
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Brought Egyptian monastic spirituality to the Latin West. Author of the Institutes and Conferences; founded monasteries at Marseilles.

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Cassian, Collationes
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