The bishop of "Aix", Lazarus, (whom tradition has long confused with Saint Lazarus, a disciple of Jesus) holds in the region a monk who came from Palestine after a long retreat in Egypt with the Desert Fathers.
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The bishop of Aix, Lazarus (tradition has often confused him with Saint Lazarus, disciple of Jesus), retained in the region a monk from Palestine after a long retreat in Egypt with the Desert Fathers.
Proculus, bishop of Marseille (380-430), welcomes John Cassian.Cassian, an anachorete, certainly started monastic life in Marseille. However, he is probably not the founder of the abbey, as the archaeological evidence of Saint Victor only goes back to the end of the 5th century. Worship is...