Tag: Gregory the Great
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The Soldier (via Gregory the Great)
Date: Prior to 590 A.D. Location: Undetermined. Most likely in the Middle East. Continued from Stephen At that time a certain soldier was also brought to the point of death. In a similar way his soul was carried out of his body, so that he lay void of any sense of feeling. But he quickly…
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Stephen (via Gregory the Great)
Date: Prior to 590 A.D. Location: Constantinople, modern day Istanbul, Turkey. Continued from Peter the Monk But because the human heart is worse than obdurate and hard, it happens that though others have the same vision and see the same punishments, they do not always reap the same profit. The honerable man Stephen, whom you…
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Peter the Monk (via Gregory the Great)
Date: Prior to 590 A.D. Location: Perhaps Spain? A certain Slav was a monk and lived with me here in this city in my monastery. He used to tell me that when he lived in the wilderness he knew a monk named Peter, who was born in Spain. He lived with him in the vast…
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