Download or read book The Syriac Menologium and Martyrology written by and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A calendar of saints for the ancient Syriac church, based on a document from the 5th century. This calendar notes some of the long forgotten saints of the Eastern church which have been largely forgotten by Western church historians.
Download or read book The Syriac Legend of St Alexis written by and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text, which appears to be composed in the 5th or 6th century, in an anonymous recollection of the life of the Syriac father, St. Alexis of Rome. According to this tradition of the saint's life, St. Alexius was a man from Edessa whose veneration was later transplanted to Rome. It recounts that, during the episcopate of Bishop Rabbula, the bishop of Edessa, St. Alexis lived as a beggar and shared the alms he received with other poor of the city. His charity and piety made him famous, and following his death, he was revealed to be a Roman by birth.
Download or read book Instructions Counsel for Novices written by St. Ammonas the Hermit and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Ammonas, the Egyptian hermit and successor to St. Anthony the great, lays out his instructions to young monastic novitiates in this short treatise. In it he warned against the sin of pride, encourages his monks to learn to "die to themselves" and accept that there is "no longer any I, but Christ". He offers practical advise for maintaining humility and encouraging wisdom to strengthen them in their daily struggle against their own passions.
Download or read book Formulas for Spiritual Intelligence written by St. Eucherius of Lyon and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This famous bishop of Lyon, St. Eucherius, sought to counter some of the extremity of his own time, both in terms of the lawlessness which was becoming rampant in southern Gaul, as well as the punitive self-denial pushed by some monastic groups. This work, originally titled in Latin formularum spiritalis intelligentiae, intends to offer some directive for initiates into the Christian life. In this way he is a forerunner to St. Ignatius and his own work the Spiritual Exercises. St. Eucherius also uses this work to emphasis the allegorical value of the Greek and Hebrew scriptures, and expands them for potential mystical interpretation.
Download or read book Edicts of the Synod of Paris written by Chlothar II, King of Franks and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Synod of Paris was conducted in the early 7th century under Chlothar II, who had recently re-united the Frankish realm and sought a joint assembly a clergyman and nobles to discuss legislation and reform within his realm. Its remains as one of the oldest single pieces of French law.
Download or read book Two Letters from Byzantine Africa written by Licinianus of Carthage and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Licinianus, one of the last bishops of Byzantine Africa offers his pastoral advise to his peer, and African deacon, as well as to Pope Gregory I in Rome. Much of his interest appears to be in discussing the nature of the soul, philosophical concerning relating to the material world, as well episcopal issues such as ordination.
Download or read book The Life of St Mary of Egypt written by St. Sophronius of Jerusalem and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the life of St. Mary is the primary source of what we know about her. Allegedly right before her death she recounted her life to St. Zosimas of Palestine, who went on to have his student, Sophronius compose a this volume about her charity and ascetic lifestyle. She remains a popular figure of Egyptian Christianity in the 4th century. This book also includes the original Latin text of Sophronius, as well as the English translation.
Download or read book A Song of Aethelwolf written by Aethelwolf of Lindsfarne and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A song of Aethelwolf is a 9th century poem composed by one of the friars of the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne. It recounts the sentinel figures of the era as well as some of the personalities present on that island monastery itself.
Download or read book Fragments written by St. Ephraim of Antioch and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short collection of the surviving writings of St. Ephraim, the Greek bishop of Antioch, who wrote his works in the 6th century. His writing seek to address the question of the dual nature of Christ's humanity and divinity, which was a major controversy in the church and the empire in his lifetime.
Download or read book The Lives of the Apostles written by St. Jerome and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a supplement to his 'Illustrious Men', St. Jerome composed this work about the minor apostles of Christ who went to the east as part of their ministry. This work includes both the Latin and Greek version of Jerome's work.
Download or read book Laws of the Monastery and the Church written by Theuderic III, King of Franks and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What follows here is a collection of edicts and diplomas issued by the Frankish king, grant the parameters of authority to the local monasteries, and offering the protection of the church in these bishopric under the authority of the Frankish crown forever. These edicts would make up the basis for French welfare programs and charitable gives in France for the next thousand years. Some of the edicts noted here are still in effect to this day to the modern monasteries which have maintained their mission since the 7th century.
Download or read book Laws of the Church written by Chlothar III, King of Franks and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of the five grants made by King Chlothar III to local monasteries, granting them right and privileges for all future generations under the protection of the French crown. Some referenes are made to other courtiers as well, including his Queen and the Mayor of the Palace.
Download or read book Of the Three Habitations written by St. Patrick of Ireland and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few of the works of St. Patrick have come down to use over the centuries. This is a rare insight into his mind which has never before been translated into English. Here Patrick lays out three separate places: Earth, Heaven, and Hell, and give his own argument for the nature of these locations and the question of time that is associated with all three.
Download or read book Irish Canons written by Abedoc the Hibernian and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is collection of documents relating to the early Irish church compiled on the holy island of Lindisfarne. The purpose for this compilation is unclear, but it does cite several early Irish synods that we would otherwise know very little about. Moreover, some of these canons would be copied and help form the foundation of the English church in centuries to come.
Download or read book Three Letters from the Companion of the Bulgars written by St. Rupert of Juvavum and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of otherwise anonymous letters regarding the activity of missionary behavior on the Frankish frontier. The identity of 'Bulgars' here is mistaken for the Avars, who were the dominant pagan military force of the 7th century. This is rare insight into the affairs of the Frankish court into their international affairs.
Download or read book The Armenian Synaxarium Volume I Navasard written by D.P. Curtin and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of the book of Armenian saints for the month of Navasard. Each entry contains the account and hagiography about a saint that is sentinel to the Armenian Apostolic Church. For the month of Navasard specifically, emphasis is placed on St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Bartholomew, the alleged founder of the ancient church, and various Imperial martyrs that faced their death during the height of the Diocletian persecution.
Download or read book The Acts of the Martyrs of Caesaraugusta written by St. Braulio of Zaragoza and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7th century bishop of Zaragoza (Caesaraugsta), St. Brauclio, recounts in this work the the mayhem and impact of the Diocletian persecution on his native city. He recounts the various martyrs and their refusal to bend the knee to the emperor and his drive to crush the growing power of the Christian church.
