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Excerpt from The Monks of the West, Vol. 2: From St. Benedict to St. Bernard
Even before the death of Benedict, the most illustrious of his contemporaries had sought in monastic life an interval of repose and freedom between his public career and his grave. Cassiodorus, who had been for thirty years the honour and light of the Gothic monarchy, the minister and the friend of five kings, abandoned the court of Ravenna and all his offices and dignities,l towards the year 538, to found, at the extremity of Italy, a monastery called Viviers (vivaria), which at one time seemed destined to rival Monte Cassino itself in importance.
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