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21/03/2015

Unpublished: John Chrysostom

John was born in Antioch in 349 to Greco-Syrian parents. Different scholars describe his mother Anthusa as a pagan or as a Christian, and his father was a high-ranking military officer.John's father died soon after his birth and he was raised by his mother. He was baptised in 368 or [...]

06/03/2015

Unpublished: Irenaeus

Irenaeus was born during the first half of the 2nd century (the exact date is disputed: between the years 115 and 125 according to some, or 130 and 142 according to others), and he is thought to have been a Greek from Polycarp's hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, now İzmir, [...]

20/02/2015

Unpublished: Peter Chrysologus

Peter was born in Imola, where Cornelius, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Imola, baptized him, educated him, and ordained him a deacon. He was made an archdeacon through the influence of Emperor Valentinian III. Pope Sixtus III appointed Peter as Bishop of Ravenna (or perhaps archbishop) [...]

06/02/2015

Unpublished: Richard of St Victor 2

Notice sur richard de Saint-Victor par mgr Hugonin, évéque de Bayeux, licencié ès-lettres de la Faculté de Paris, ancien élève de l’école ecclésiastique des carmes. (PL CXCVI Pg XIV) II fit aussi savoir par lettres, [...]

20/01/2015

Unpublished: Richard of St Victor

05/01/2015

Unpublished: San Agustín

EPISTOLAE S. Aurelii Augustini Evangelii parabolae de morosis precibus. 8. 15. Utquid ergo per multa dispergimur, et quaerimus quid oremus, timentes ne forte sicut non oportet oremus, ac non potius cum Psalmo dicimus: Unam petii a Domino, hanc requiram; ut habitem in domo Domini omnes [...]

21/12/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 8

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Denique libenter compatietur, quia et ipse propter nos infirmitatibus circumdatus est. Constitutus est, quia a Deo. Non enim ipse se constituit, sed Deus illum gtorificavit, qui dixit Filius meus es [...]

05/12/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 7

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Igitur oculus carnis tantum capit extima corporum. Oculus cordis et extima et intima corporum sed tantum extima cordium. Oculus vero Dei extima simul et intima non solum corporum, sed etiam cordium [...]

20/11/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 6

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Similiter aliquando ex bono desiderio mala cogitatio nascitur, ut nonnunquam pollutionem carnis abominando, turpitudinem carnalis concupiscentiae cogitare incipimus, et ex ipsa nostra cogitatione ad [...]

05/11/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 5

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Cogitationes etiam compages vocantur, quia quodammodo ita desideria adinvicem copulant, sicut compages membrorum artus ligant. Compago enim vinculum est quod medium est, et extrema conjugit. Et [...]

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