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See also:CASSIANUS, JOANNES EREMITA, or JOANNES
MASSILIENSIS
(?360-?435), a celebrated recluse, one of the first founders of monastic institutions in western See also:Europe, was probably See also:born in
1 The Via Traiana Nova, or the (See also:vice) tres Traianae, mentioned in See also:inscriptions with the See also:Cassia and See also:Clodia as under the same See also:curator, are not certainly identifiable
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2 Having regard to the military importance of See also:Arretium during the Punic See also:wars, it is difficult to believe that no See also:direct road existed to this point before 187 B.C
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See also:Provence about 36o, but he spent the See also:early See also:part of his See also:life in the monastery of See also:Bethlehem with his friend Germanus, and his See also:affinities were always Eastern rather than Western
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In See also:company with Germanus he visited See also:Egypt, and dwelt for several years among the ascetics of the See also:desert near the See also:banks of the See also:Nile
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In 403 he repaired to See also:Constantinople, where he received ordination as See also:deacon at the hands of See also:Chrysostom
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At See also:Marseilles (after 410) he founded two religious See also:societies—a See also:convent for nuns, and the See also:abbey of St See also:Victor, which during his t Lme is said to have contained 5000 inmates
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In later times his regulations enjoyed a high reputation, and were adopted by the monks and nuns of See also:Port Royal
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He was eventually canonized; and a festival in his See also:honour See also:long continued to be celebrated at Marseilles on the 25th of See also:July
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See also:Cassianus was one of the first and most prominent of the Semi-Pelagians, maintaining that while See also:man is by nature sinful, he yet has some See also:good remaining in him, and that, while the immediate See also:gift of See also:God's See also:grace is necessary to salvation, See also:conversion may also be begun by the exercise of man's will
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He further asserted that God is always willing to bestow his grace on all who seek it, though, at the same See also:time, it is true that he sometimes bestows it without its being sought
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These views have been held by a very large part of the See also: At the See also:request of See also:Castor, See also:bishop of See also:Apt, he wrote two monumental and influential See also:treatises on the monastic life . The De Institutione Coenobiorum (twelve books) describes the See also:dress, the See also:food, the devotional exercises, the discipline and the See also:special spiritual dangers of monastic life in the See also:East (gluttony, unchastity, avarice, anger, gloom, apathy, vanity and See also:pride) . The Collationes Patrum, a See also:series of dialogues with the pious fathers of Egypt, See also:deal with the way in which these dangers (and others, e.g. demons) may be avoided or overcome . At the See also:desire of See also:Leo (then See also:arch-deacon of See also:Rome) he wrote against See also:Nestorius his De Incarnatione Domini in seven books . See also:EDITIONS: Douay (1616) by Alardus Gazaus, with excellent notes; See also:Migne's See also:Patrol . See also:Lat. vols. xlix. and 1.; M . Petschenig in the See also:Vienna Corpus Script . See also:Eccles . Lat . (2 vols., 1886–1888) . See A . See also:Harnack, See also:History of See also:Dogma, v . 246 if., 253 ff . ; A . Hoch, See also:Die Lehre d . Joh . Cassian von Natur and Gnade (See also:Freiburg, 1895) ; W . Moeller, History of the Chr . Church, i . 368-370 . |
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