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Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum Italicorum

Gregory I

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English
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Complete work
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~110,000 words · 538 passages
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What it is about

Gregory the Great's Dialogues, in LATIN.

Context and history

Four books of lives and miracles of Italian saints; the second is, in its entirety, the only ancient biography of St Benedict, and hence the source of everything we know about the father of Western monasticism. Gregory (pope 590–604) wrote for a public emerging from imperial collapse, which needed examples rather than arguments.

Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.

III. Of a Monk, that was gardener to the same Abbey . 13 IV. OfEquitius, Abbot in the Province of Valeria . . 15 V. Of Constantins, Clerk of St. Stephen’s Church . . 23 VI. Of Marcellinns, Bishop of Ancona .... 26 VII. Of Nonnosus, Prior of the Abbey in Mount Soracte . 26 VIII. Of Anastasius, Abbot of the Monastery called Suppen-IX. Of Bonifacius, Bishop of the City of Ferenti . . 31 X. Of Fortnnatus, Bishop of the City ofTuderti . . 38 XI. Of Martirius, a Monk in the Province of Valeria . . 45 XII. Of Severus, a Priest in the same Province ... 46 £f)e ^econD 2Df tbe life anti a^itacles of %t. TBennet I. How a sieve was broken and made sound by St. II. How he overcame a great carnal temptation . . 55 III. How he brake a glass with the sign of the Cross . . 56 IV. How he cured a Monk that had an idle and wandering mind ....... 61 V. How by prayer he made water to spring out of a rock in the top of a mountain .... 62 VI. How he caused an iron bill to come again into the handle from the bottom of the water . . 63 V Contents V1L How his scholar Maurus walked upon the water . VIII. How he made a crow to carry a loaf far off that was poisoned ...... IX. How he removed an huge stone by his prayer X. Of the fantastical fire of the kitchen XI. How a little

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