Abbey Of St Victor, Marseille
The Abbey of Saint-Victor is a former abbey that was founded during the late Ancient Rome, Roman period in Marseille in the south of France, named after the local soldier saint and martyr, Victor of Marseilles. History The crypts of the abbey contains artefacts indicating the presence of a quarry that was active during the Greek period and later became a necropolis from 2 BC onward until Christian times. In 415, Christian monk and theologian John Cassian, having come from the monasteries of Egypt, founded two monasteries at Marseille — the Abbey of Saint Victor for men in the south of the Old Port of Marseille, Vieux-Port, as well as the Abbey of Saint Sauveur the other for women in the south of :fr:Place de Lenche, Place de Lenche. The Abbey of Saint Victor was later affected during the fifth century by the Semipelagianism, Semipelagian heresy, which began with some of Cassian's writings. Both monasteries suffered from invasions by the Vikings and Saracens, and were destroyed ...
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Abbaye Saint-Victor (Marseille)
Abbey of St Victor may refer to: * Abbey of St Victor, Marseille * Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris * abbey and namesake of Saint-Victor-l'Abbaye {{disambig ...
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