John Cassian, The institutes -
The Institutes by St John Cassian is one of our greatest sources of knowledge of communal monastic life in the Egyptian desert, which he experienced and then brought to the west.
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This text by St John Cassian is currently hosted off-site, and can be viewed here:
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