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portrayal of hell

  • TITLE: hell (religion)
    SECTION: Christianity
    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 what lies in store. Tales of this kind proliferated throughout the Middle Ages,...

translation by Alfred the Great

  • TITLE: Alfred (king of Wessex)
    ...of the Pastoral Care of St. Gregory I, the great 6th-century pope, provided a manual for priests in the instruction of their flocks, and a translation 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...
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Benedict of Nursia

  • TITLE: Saint Benedict of Nursia (Italian monk)
    SECTION: Life
    The only recognized authority for the facts of Benedict’s 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 good family and was sent by...

Hermenegild

  • TITLE: Saint Hermenegild (Visigoth prince)
    ...succeeded in buying them off, and Hermenegild was captured and beheaded. Most contemporary writers suggested that Hermenegild was executed as a rebel, but 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...

work of Adso of Montier-en-Der

  • TITLE: Adso of Montier-en-Der (Benedictine monk and abbot)
    ...France and sister of Otto I of Germany; Gerbert of Aurillac (the future Pope Sylvester II); and Abbo of Fleury, who asked Adso to compile a verse edition of 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...

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