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Venerable Cassian the Roman He was born in Rome, but began his monastic exploits in Bethlehem, and from here in 390, with the monk Herman, he went to travel to the monasteries and hermitages of Egypt, where he spent seven years. In 397 they returned to Bethlehem, and three years later they arrived in Constantinople and listened to the conversations of the great Chrysostom. Here Cassian was ordained a deacon. In 405, the clergy of Constantinople sent Cassian to Rome to seek protection for Chrysostom. From here, at the invitation of the Marseille Bishop Castor, he moved to Marseille and, ordained a presbyter, founded two monasteries, male and female, with the rules of eastern monasteries, and thus was the first to introduce monastic cenobitic life in Gaul. In 417 he wrote “12 books on the decrees of the monasteries” or communities of Palestine and Egypt, in 419 he outlined his conversations with eastern ascetics, and in 431 he wrote an essay against the heresy of Nestorius. Died in 435. On the same day of St. Theostiriktus. Disciple of Confessor Nikita of Midice (April 3); from him we have the canon of the Mother of God: “I have many misfortunes, but I resort to You”... He died in 826. Venerable John Barsanuphius, Palestinian, Archbishop of Damascus Venerable John Barsanuphius, Palestinian, Archbishop of Damascus and later the hermit of Nitria, who lived in the 5th century. He, among other bishops, was informed in 457 by Emperor Leo of the martyrdom of Proterius, Patriarch of Alexandria. St. Cassian, a recluse and faster of Pechersk, who lived in the 12th century, victorious in the fight against the “spirits of evil.” His relics rest in the Feodosiev caves, in Kyiv.