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38. Egeria: Diary of a Pilgrimage

translated and annotated by George E. Gingras

Written in the first part of the fifth century, this work is a charming record of the observations of a Christian woman on a lengthy pilgrimage to the Holy Lands. Her firsthand account is a work of major significance for the fields of archaeology, church history, philology and comparative liturgy.

ISBN:
0-8091-0029-0

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Hardcover

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37. Firmicus Maternus: The Error of the Pagan Religions

translated and annotated by Clarence A. Forbes

A distinguished and literate convert, as well as a former astrologer, Firmicus Maternus called for the ferocious and brutal destruction of paganism by the state. Addressing the brothers, emperors Constantius and Constans, this work was written no later than 350.

ISBN:
0-8091-0039-8

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Hardcover

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09. St. Augustine: The Greatness of the Soul, The Teacher

translated and annotated by Joseph M. Colleran, CSsR

Among the earlier writings of Augustine, the first work treats the nature of the human soul, its dignity and grandeur. The second discusses the fundamental question of how man acquires knowledge. Each is in the form of a dialogue.

ISBN:
0-8091-0060-6

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Hardcover

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34. Palladius: The Lausiac History

translated and annotated by Robert T. Meyer

Palladius has written an important history of early monasticism in Egypt with these biographic sketches or notes on some sixty holy men and women he had met or heard of. The work, dating from 419 or 420, is dedicated to Lausus, the royal chamberlain at the court of Emperor Theodosius II.

ISBN:
0-8091-0083-5

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Hardcover

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33. Letters of St. Jerome, Vol. 1

translated by Charles Christopher Mierow

No other source gives such an intimate portrait of this brilliant and strong minded individual, one of the four great Doctors of the West and generally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers.

ISBN:
0-8091-0087-8

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Hardcover

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31.95

35. Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, Vol. 1

translated and annotated by P.G. Walsh

Twenty-two prose letters that serve as a spiritual autobiography and intimate view of monastic life in Gaul and Nola, near Naples, in the fifth century.

ISBN:
0-8091-0088-6

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Hardcover

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36. Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, Vol. 2

translated and annotated by P.G. Walsh

Volume 2 contains letters 23-51.

ISBN:
0-8091-0089-4

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Hardcover

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29. St. Augustine on the Psalms, Vol. 1

translated and annotated by Dame Scholastica Hebgin and Dame Felicitas Corrigan

This volume covers Augustine's notes and commentaries on Psalms 1 through 29. Augustine’s theme is the Church, less as an external institution than as the very focus and center of God and Christ.

ISBN:
0-8091-0104-1

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Hardcover

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30. St. Augustine on the Psalms, Vol. 2

translated and annotated by Dame Scholastica Hebgin and Dame Felicitas Corrigan

“Saint Augustine shows in simple, forceful language that the psalms...are also part of the first phase of Christ's revelation, pointing toward the future. Since the saint was talking to his parishioners, his approach is concrete and leisurely.” —Jubilee Psalms 30-37 are treated here.

ISBN:
0-8091-0105-X

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Hardcover

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15. St. Augustine: Sermons for Christmas and Epiphany

translated and annotated by Thomas Comerford Lawler

Of all his works, it is Augustine's sermons that give us the best portrayal of this brilliant and profoundly spiritual man presenting and interpreting the divine mysteries to his own people.

ISBN:
0-8091-0137-8

Format:
Hardcover

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29.95