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Ordained 26 May 1991 by St. John Paul II in Rome for the Suburbicarian Diocese of Velletri-Segni (ITALY). Classics at Univ. of Minn. STL in Patristic Theology from the "Augustinianum" in Rome. STD candidate at same.
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Voices of the Fathers 05 – St. Jerome’s wide open spaces (opens the original)
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Today’s selection is from Letter 14 by St. Jerome to his friend Heliodorus. Jerome (c. 347–420), born at Stridon on the Dalmatian frontier, was one of the most learned Latin Fathers of the Church. Educated in Rome, he mastered classical rhetoric before turning decisively to ascetic Christianity. After travels in Gaul and the East, he lived as a hermit near Chalcis in Syria, studying Greek and some Hebrew. Ordained a priest at Antioch, he later served in Rome as secretary to Pope Damasus I, who c
Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria (opens the original)
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Today we hear an excerpt from The Pilgrimage or Travels of Egeria. It is the earliest extant graphic account of a Christian pilgrimage. Egeria was a late fourth-century Christian pilgrim, probably from the Iberian Peninsula or southern Gaul, whose travel diary, commonly called the Itinerarium Egeriae, provides an invaluable eyewitness account of the Holy Land between about 381 and 384. Writing in colloquial Latin to a circle of women - her "dear ladies" at home, she described an extended journey
Voices of the Fathers 03 – Tertullian on attending public games (opens the original)
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Voices of the Fathers 03 – Tertullian on attending public games by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian (opens the original)
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I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a Jesuit formation house in the Archdiocese of Westminster that closed in 2004. The 1949 preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian writing shows a different kind of beauty. Pagan
VOICES OF THE FATHERS 01 - Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs (opens the original)
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I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume entitled The Osterley Selection from the Latin Fathers, edited by Joseph Crehan of Heythrop College, was compiled chiefly for seminarians, especially late vocations, at Campion College, Osterley, a Jesuit formation house in the Archdiocese of Westminster that closed in 2004. The 1949 preface praises the great classical authors—Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Virgil—yet insists that Christian writing shows a different kind of beauty. Pagan
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