The Dialogues: Miracles of the Italian Fathers

by Pope Gregory I

The ascetic exploits and miracles of the holy Italian Fathers before papal heresy. Saint Gregory, Orthodox Pope of Rome collected these accounts of the spiritual feats of the Fathers so that his monks at Saint Andrew’s Monastery would see that the same Holy Spirit Who had bestowed grace and worked miracles in the time of the Apostles was still doing so in their own times, and therefore in every era it is possible to achieve union with God. The holy writings of this great champion of Orthodoxy in the West, replete with divine grace, have edified and inspired generation after generation of Christians seeking union with God.

284 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 593

About the author

born perhaps 540

From 590, Saint Gregory I the Great, known pope, increased authority, enforced rules of life for the clergy, and sponsored many notably important missionary expeditions of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in 596 to Britain.

Commonly vigilant Gregory guarded the doctrine of the Church. He founded numerous monasteries, including a school for the training of church musicians. He collected the melodies and plainsong, so associated and now Gregorian chants. In his time, he served as a monk, an abbot, and a leader of Italy. He also momentously influenced the Catholic Church through doctrine, organization, and discipline. People thought of his foremost skill in grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic in all Rome, Gregory of Tours tells us. Gregory sent as a patron of England. Gregory wrote Dialogues , one accomplishment, a book on the Lives of the Saints. Boniface VIII proclaimed him as a doctor of the church in 1295.

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