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| Cassianus the deacon.
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Chapter LXII.
Cassianus,2681
| 2681 Johannes Cassianus died 450. | Scythian by
race, ordained deacon by bishop John the Great, at Constantinople, and
a presbyter at Marseilles, founded two monasteries, that is to say one
for men and one for women, which are still standing. He wrote from
experience, and in forcible language, or to speak more clearly, with
meaning back of his words, and action back of his talk. He covered the
whole field of practical directions, for monks of all sorts, in the
following works: On dress, also On the canon of prayers,
and the Usage in the saying of Psalms, (for these in the
Egyptian monasteries, are said day and night), three books. One of
Institutes, eight books On the origin, nature and remedies
for the eight principal sins, a book on each sin. He also compiled
Conferences with the Egyptian fathers, as follows: On the aim
of a monk and his creed, On discretion, On three vocations to the
service of God, On the warfare of the flesh against the spirit and the
spirit against the flesh, On the nature of all sins, On the slaughter
of the saints, On fickleness of mind, On principalities, On the nature
of prayer, On the duration of prayer, On perfection, On chastity, On
the protection of God, On the knowledge of spiritual things, On the
Divine graces, On friendship, On whether to define or not to define, On
three ancient kinds of monks and a fourth recently arisen, On the
object of cenobites and hermits, On true satisfaction in repentance, On
the remission of the Quinquagesimal fast, On nocturnal illusions, On
the saying of the apostles, “For the good which I would do, I do
not, but the evil which I would not, that I do,” On
mortification, and finally at the request of Leo the archdeacon,
afterwards bishop of Rome, he wrote seven books against Nestorius,
On the incarnation of the Lord, and writing this, made an end,
both of writing and living, at Marseilles, in the reign of Theodosius
and Valentinianus.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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