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Chapter I. Of the vigils which we endured.

Works of St John Cassian (Institutes, Conferences, On the Incarnation) · Saint John Cassian

Of the vigils which we endured.

Cassian 3.93.1

When then the previous Conference was ended, and the intervening silence of night as well, as we had been conducted by the holy Abbot Joseph to a separate cell for the sake of quiet, but had passed the whole night without sleep (since owing to his words a fire was raging in our hearts), we came forth from the cell and retired about a hundred yards from it and sat down in a secluded spot. And so as an opportunity was given by the shades of night for secret and familiar converse together, as we sat there Abbot Germanus groaned heavily.

Cassian 3.93.2