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Back to Search56—John of Damascus: Last Witness to a Lost World
Season 1 Episode 56
John of Damascus, the last of the Fathers, was born into a world newly conquered. In the seventh century, many lands that were once home to Eastern C…
4 years, 4 months ago
55—Isidore of Seville: Last of the Red-Hot Latin Fathers
Season 1 Episode 55
Isidore of Seville lived at a time when the memory (or fantasy) of a homogeneous Roman culture was rapidly fading. It was a time to gather the last …
4 years, 4 months ago
54—Maximus the Confessor: Where East and West Meet
Season 1 Episode 54
By the seventh century, Christian thinkers of East and West were settling into scholastic methods, synthesizing and systematizing the thought of t…
4 years, 5 months ago
53—Gregory and His Greatness
Season 1 Episode 53
His name retains its greatness, even in modern times—even for Christians who don't know much history. They know Gregorian Chant, and maybe Gregorian…
4 years, 5 months ago
52—Benedict of Nursia: The Elusive Man Behind the Rule
Season 1 Episode 52
Benedict was not the first monk to compose a rule for living in community — but he's certainly the most influential. He wrote the Rule that the Empe…
4 years, 6 months ago
51—St. Patrick: Paternal and Patristic
Season 1 Episode 51
Forget the shamrocks. Pour the green beer down the sink, and drive the snakes from the Emerald Isle of your imagination. Listen up and encounter the…
4 years, 6 months ago
50—Peter Chrysologus: The Doctor of (Short) Sermons
Season 1 Episode 50
Peter Chrysologus is known as the "Doctor of Homilies," and he always preached with brevity. Every word was golden. He was archbishop of Ravenna dur…
4 years, 7 months ago
49—Romanus the Melodist: Through Hymns, with Hymns, in Hymns
Season 1 Episode 49
Romanus the Melodist looms large from his lifetime in the sixth century. Today he is much sung and little known—at least with certainty. Beautiful l…
4 years, 7 months ago
48—Leo the Great: Who Roared with the Voice of Peter
Season 1 Episode 48
Though prolific in his words and prodigious in his deeds, Leo was utterly self-effacing. Classically educated, he never quoted the classics. He prea…
4 years, 8 months ago
47—Vincent of Lerins: Believed Everywhere, Always, by All
Season 1 Episode 47
All Christians respected the authority of Scripture, but already in the fifth century the Church was riven by conflicting interpretations of Scriptu…
4 years, 8 months ago