foundation · 415 · Marseille
He founded two houses at Marseille, one for men and one for women, and wrote for them. The Institutes covers the outward frame — dress, offices, the eight principal faults, which he had from Evagrius and which this dataset holds under his page. The Conferences are cast as conversations with named Egyptian abbas and go after the interior life. Benedict, in the last chapter of his rule, tells his monks to read the Conferences, and that instruction is why the Egyptian desert reaches the medieval West at all. Gennadius, a presbyter of Marseille within two generations, is the witness and names both houses. His teaching on grace was attacked by Augustine's followers and he has never been formally canonised in the West while being kept as a saint in the East, which the page shows without comment.
To put down in Latin what the Egyptian fathers had said, for monks in Gaul who would never go there.
The Institutes and the Conferences, and through Benedict's rule the shape of Western monasticism.