Saint John Cassian’s Cave from Romania

Saint John Cassian from Marseille is a famous Christian Father from the ancient Christianity (IV – V century), venerated in the Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox Churches. He was a monk and a religious writer from Scythia Minor, today Dobruja, Romania.

His relics are in Marseille, France. His life is a pilgrimage in the entire Roman Empire and meetings with all the big Christian personalities of his time.

This spring we have visited his birthplace and look for his steps in Romania, on the Black Sea Cost.

Travel Experience Saint John Cassian Monastery

This area named today Dobruja was a Greek, Dacian and Roman site where Saint Andrew, the Jesus Christ disciple has preach the Gospel, a land full of Christian martyrs and theological culture.

The capital of the region is Constanta, the biggest Romanian port at the Black Sea. Here are a lot of the Christian archeological testimonies and at 50 km from it are the Cassian’s village, lake, monastery and cave, called in Romanian “Casian”.

We are speaking of the Dobruja Gorge Natural Reserve area, a place of wildness and historic Christian caves where the first monks have lived and pray.

One of this is the Saint John Cassian’s Cave, the cave that remembers of the saint birthplace in Dobruja and his cultural and mystical legacy.

To arrive here, first you have to enter into the monastery yard. From here you shall go on a route into the garden monastery and step by step you will pass on little stairs and vegetal passages until the cave will be in front of you. The Saint John Cassian icon will receive you at the cave entrance. Inside are a lot of praying places from the beginnings of the Christianity.

St. John Cassian from Romania

So, if you want to find the origins of the European monasticism come to Saint John Cassian’s Cave from Dobruja, Romania.

Here is a special tour from 16 destinations from Europe in which you will pass from the medieval to the ancient Christianity. The pilgrimage is linked to the Saint John Cassian Feast on 23^rd of July.

Saint John Cassian Tour in Romania from Birmingham Airport and London Luton Airport.

John Cassian Tour in Romania

Saint John Cassian Tour in Romania

(Religious Tour from Birmingham, London Luton, Frankfurt Hahn, Munchen, Dortmund, Memmingen, Malaga, Roma Ciampino, Bologna, Nice, Paris Beauvais and Brussels Charleroi)

All Inclusive Religious Guided Tour in Romania with Limousine

ONLY 899 Euros. ALL INCLUSIVE 9 Days in Romania

 (Guide, limousine, accommodation, food, drinks, tickets, etc.)

Departure & Arrival from: Birmingham, London Luton, Frankfurt Hahn, Munchen, Dortmund, Memmingen, Malaga, Roma Ciampino, Bologna, Nice, Paris Beauvais and Brussels Charleroi.

Flights not Included!

17^th July 2017  Monday: Arrival in Transylvania

     Arrival to Cluj-Napoca Airport with BlueAir, Wizzair or Lufthansa. Visit the cathedrals of Cluj – the capital of Transylvania: Orthodox, Catholic, Reformed, Greek-Catholic. Dinner at the Hotel Lucy Star Cluj-Napoca.

18.07 Tuesday: Fortified Churches of Transylvania I -230 km

 Visit the Monastery of Ramet (relics of S. Ghelasie) and Church of Blaj (Greek-Catholic). Lunch in center. Visit the Fortified Church of Biertan UNESCO. Wine and coffee break in Sighisoara UNESCO. Dinner in Medias center. Hotel Central Medias (new rooms).

19.07 Wednesday: Fortified Churches of Transylvania II 210km

     Visit of Sibiu (the Orthodox and Evangelical cathedrals). Visit the Fortified Church of Calnic UNESCO. Lunch in Sebes. Visit of Alba Iulia fortress and cathedrals. Wine and coffee break in the center. Dinner at Grand Hotel Sibiu (Dumbrava).

20.07 Thursday: Churches of Wallachia and the Carpathians Mountains – 250 km

     Discover the Olt Defile. Visit the Monastery of Cozia. Lunch in Ramnicu Valcea. Visit the Horezu Monastery UNESCO. Ceramic of Horezu UNESCO. Visit the Royal Monastery of Curtea de Arges (relics of S. Filofteia). Wine and coffee break in the center. Dinner in Pitesti. Hotel La Cetate Pitesti.

21.07 Friday: Saint Andrew’s Cave – 400 km (by A2 „the Sun Motorway”)

  Discover the Great Romanian Plain. Lunch in Cernavoda – Danube. Visit the Saint Andrew’s Cave (monastery). Visit of Adamclisi and Tropaeum Traiani. Wine and coffee break in Murfatlar Winery. Dinner in Constanta. Hotel Mihaela Mamaia.

22.07 Saturday: Martyrs and Saints of Lesser Scythia – 250 km

     Visit the cathedral (relics of Christian Martyrs) and the archaeological museum (painted hypogeum tomb) from Constanta. Lunch in the center. Visit the Histria Fortress and Black Sea Coast. Dinner in Mamaia. Hotel Mihaela.

23.07 Sunday: Saint John Cassian Feast and Prayer

Sunday Service at Saint John Cassian’s Cave from Dobruja. Lunch at St. John Cassian Monastery. Rest on the Black Sea beach. Dinner in Constanta. Hotel Mihaela.

24.07 Monday: return and visit of Bucharest – 250 km

Discover the Danube River in Romania. Lunch in Bucharest. Visit the House of the People (the largest building in Europe), the Patriarchal Cathedral, the Catholic and Anglican Churches. Wine and coffee break in center. Dinner at Hotel Triumf Bucharest.

25.07 Tuesday: Snagov M. and Departure from Bucharest  

Visit the Snagov Monastery (Lunch). Departure from Bucharest Airport with BlueAir, Wizzair, Ryanair or Lufthansa.

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