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Sermons (Tractatus)

Name: Sermons (Tractatus)
Author: Gaudentius of Brescia

Gaudentius of Brescia · c. AD 400s

What this text is

The twenty-one surviving tractates of Gaudentius — the last preached on the anniversary of his predecessor Philastrius, the memorial panegyric that is our fullest portrait of the heresy-cataloguer of Brescia.

Public-domain translations

Summarized (from the Latin)

[Sermon 21 preaches Philastrius as a wandering athlete of Christ before ever he came to Brescia — contending across Italy against pagans, Jews, and every heresy; gentle with men, implacable only toward error.]

Manuscript witnesses

North Italian tradition

medieval copies

The tractates transmitted with the works of the Brescian church.

SURVIVING WITNESSES

Glueck, CSEL 68

1936

The critical edition of the sermons.

CRITICAL TEXT

Provenance

Brescia; sermons of Philastrius's successor

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

S. Gaudentii episcopi Brixiensis Tractatus (CSEL 68)
Ambrosius Glueck, 1936
The critical edition.
The Fathers of the Latin Church in the Po Valley
(in) Humphries, Communities of the Blessed, 1999
North Italian episcopal culture around Gaudentius and Philastrius.

Figures named in this text (1)

Philastrius of Brescia