John Cassian, while he was in Rome,…

415 CE

John Cassian, while he was in Rome, had accepted Pope Innocent’s invitation to found an Egyptian-style monastery in southern Gaul, near Marseille.

He may also have spent time as a priest in Antioch between 404 and 415.

Whatever the case, he arrives in Marseille around 415.

His foundation, the Abbey of St. Victor, is a complex of monasteries for both men and women, one of the first such institutes in the West, and will serve as a model for later monastic development.

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Marsella > Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur France View →

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Septem Provinciae (Roman Diocese) View → Christianity, Nicene View → Roman Empire: Theodosian dynasty (Constantinople) View → Gaul, Praetorian prefecture of View → Roman Empire, Western (Ravenna) View →

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