Conlationes XXIV

Joannes, Cassianus, Conlationes XXIV, in: Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 13, edited by Petschenig, M., Vienna, 1886.
‎♦ From Scythia (ca. 360–435); monk in Jerusalem, then founder, in 415, of a double monastery – for men and women – near Marseille; On the desert monastic tradition, presented as discourses of famous Egyptian ascetics addressed to John and his frend Romanus on a visit to Egypt at the end of the fourth century.