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Also Known As Johannes Massiliensis • Johannes Cassianus • Johannes Eremita
Born 360 • Dobruja • Bulgaria? • Romania?
Died 435 (aged 75) • Marseille • France
Subjects Of Study monasticism • semi-Pelagianism
Saint Vincent of Lérins
ancient theologian
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
Macarius the Egyptian
Egyptian monk
Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
Pelagius
Christian theologian
Saint Sarapion
Egyptian monk
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Saint Hippolytus of Rome
antipope
Novatian
antipope
Arsenius the Great
Roman monk
Tyrannius Rufinus
Roman priest and writer
Saint Hilary of Poitiers
bishop of Poitiers
Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe
African bishop
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Theodore Ascidas
Greek monk-theologian
Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch
Saint Joseph of Volokolamsk
Russian Orthodox abbot and theologian
Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople

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