John Cassian

Saint John Cassian (French: Jean Cassien) was a monastic founder and an important church father in what is today France. He had lived among the Egyptian ascetics in Scetis and was responsible for bringing the monasticism of the Desert Fathers to the West. His works, the Institutes and the Conferences, influence both monastics and pious laity. Relics of his remain with Roman Catholics in Marseille to this day, despite attempted destruction of the relics by the revolutionaries.

St. Cassian is sometimes slandered by Protestants, who like to accuse him and the entire Orthodox Church of "semi-Pelagianism."

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