Several ascetic monks in Marseilles in southern Gaul (modern France) rejected Pelagianism but felt that Augustine had gone too far. The main Semi-Pelagians were John Cassian (c. 360–435), Vincent of Lerins (?–c. 450), and Faustus of Riez (c. 405–c. 490). They taught a modified view of original sin and a weakened view of free will. Man is sick, not well or dead. He inherits the tendency to sin, not the necessity to sin or the guilt of Adam. He is half good and half bad. He cannot save himself; he