books.google.com - John Cassian (c. 365-c. 435) journeyed to the West to found monasteries in Marseilles and the region of Provence. Conferences is his masterpiece, a study of the Egyptian ideal of the monk....http://books.google.com/books/about/Conferences.html?id=Uxaow-3qnRQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareConferences