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Pope Tawadros visits the shrine of St. John Cassian in Marseilles

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Tuesday ,22 October 2019

Pope Tawadros visits the shrine of St. John Cassian in Marseilles

His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark See, visited the shrine of St. John Cassian in his monastery in marseilles, southern France , accompanied by a delegation and received by Hisham Maher, the Egyptian Consul General in southern France, and Archbishop Jean-Marc Eveline. 

Saint John Cassian lived at the fourth and fifth centuries in Romania and was strongly influenced by the Egyptian Orthodox monasticism.