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The Church Fathers · 590–592
Homilies on the Gospels
Gregory the Great · c. 540–604
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What it is
Forty sermons on the gospel readings of the Roman year, preached during plague and siege, several of them dictated when he was too ill to speak.
Why it lasted
The model for the medieval homiliary, and the source of the Western identification of Mary Magdalene with the sinful woman of Luke.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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