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The Book of Pastoral Rule and Selected Epistles

Saint Gregory the Great (the Dialogist) · c. 591 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Pope of Rome (590–604); known in the Orthodox tradition as Gregory the Dialogist after his famous Dialogues recounting the lives of Italian saints, especially St Benedict of Nursia. His Pastoral Rule (Liber Regulae Pastoralis) is the foundational Latin manual on the office of bishop and pastor and was for centuries the standard formation of Western clergy. Author of the Moralia on Job, hundreds of sermons, and an enormous body of letters. The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts celebrated on the weekdays of Great Lent is attributed to him in the Eastern tradition. Commemorated on 12 March.

Contents

  1. Prefatory Note(1 chapter)
  2. The Book of Pastoral Rule(66 chapters)
  3. Register of the Epistles of St. Gregory the Great(273 chapters)