A-Z: General definitions: John Cassian

Definition

(c. 360-435). He left his monastery in Bethlehem to visit the Desert Fathers and eventually settled in Gaul. His Institutes (one of the earliest collections of instructions for the monastic life to be written in W. Europe) and Conferences (accounts of conversations with the anchorite abbots of the Egyptian desert) profoundly influenced Western monasticism.

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