Dialogues

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Dialogues is a notable work by St. Gregory the Great, who served as pope from 590 to 604 CE. This influential text is part of his significant writings, which also include Moralia in Job and Pastoral Rule. Gregory the Great is recognized as a key figure in shaping medieval spirituality and moral theology. His Dialogues are known to contain a life of St. Benedict of Nursia and describe his miracles. The work offers practical wisdom and reflects Gregory's deep influence on the Christian thought of his era.12

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  In his Dialogues, Pope Gregory I (590–604), writing in a time of pestilence and invasions, included return-from-the-dead accounts from a hermit, a merchant, and a soldier who witnessed the terrors of hell and the joys of the blessed before being sent back to warn the living of…
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  In his Dialogues, Pope Gregory I (590–604), writing in a time of pestilence and invasions, included return-from-the-dead accounts from a hermit, a merchant, and a soldier who witnessed the terrors of hell and the joys of the blessed before being sent back to warn the living of…
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- Alfred
  …by Bishop Werferth of Gregory’s Dialogues supplied edifying reading on holy men. Alfred’s rendering of the Soliloquies of the 5th-century theologian St. Augustine of Hippo, to which he added material from other works of the Fathers of the Church, discussed problems concerning faith and reason and the nature of eternal…
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  …by Bishop Werferth of Gregory’s Dialogues supplied edifying reading on holy men. Alfred’s rendering of the Soliloquies of the 5th-century theologian St. Augustine of Hippo, to which he added material from other works of the Fathers of the Church, discussed problems concerning faith and reason and the nature of eternal…
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- Adso of Montier-en-Der
  …the second book of the Dialogues, a hagiographic and doctrinal text composed by Pope Gregory I. In 990 Adso became the abbot of the monastery of St. Bénigne in Dijon. His death two years later occurred while he was on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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  …the second book of the Dialogues, a hagiographic and doctrinal text composed by Pope Gregory I. In 990 Adso became the abbot of the monastery of St. Bénigne in Dijon. His death two years later occurred while he was on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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St. Benedict
Life
…is book 2 of the Dialogues of St. Gregory I, who said that he had obtained his information from four of Benedict’s disciples. Though Gregory’s work includes many signs and wonders, his outline of Benedict’s life may be accepted as historical. He gives no dates, however. Benedict was born of…
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…is book 2 of the Dialogues of St. Gregory I, who said that he had obtained his information from four of Benedict’s disciples. Though Gregory’s work includes many signs and wonders, his outline of Benedict’s life may be accepted as historical. He gives no dates, however. Benedict was born of…
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St. Hermenegild
…Pope Gregory I, in his Dialogues, stated that he was killed for refusing to receive Communion from an Arian bishop. His cult was subsequently authorized for Spain by Pope Sixtus V and for the whole church by Urban VIII.
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…Pope Gregory I, in his Dialogues, stated that he was killed for refusing to receive Communion from an Arian bishop. His cult was subsequently authorized for Spain by Pope Sixtus V and for the whole church by Urban VIII.
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