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</ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#The Conversion of Europe">The Conversion of Europe</a> </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Franks</li> <li class="H_body_text">Celtic Missions</li> <li class="H_body_text">England</li> <li class="H_body_text">Germany</li> <li class="H_body_text">Scandinavia</li> <li class="H_body_text">The Slavs</li> <li class="H_body_text">Rus</li> <li class="H_body_text">Other Missionary Areas</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <hr /> <span class="H_body_text"><a name="The Rise of the Church of Rome" id="The Rise of the Church of Rome2"></a></span><span class="H_Subitle">The Rise of the Church of Rome</span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/StPeterinthebible.asp">Biblical Proof Texts: Matt 16, Luke 22, John 21</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (c.120-202AD): <a href="source/irenaeus-apostolicsuccesion-heresiesIII3.asp">The Church's Foundation by Apostles; Peter and Paul in Rome; and Apostolic Succesion</a>, (Against Heresies, Book III, Chapter 3)</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/sardica5.asp">Council of Sardica: Canon V on the Roman See 343</a>.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Gelasius: <a href="source/gelasius1.asp">On the Two Powers</a>. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06406a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Pope St. Gelasius I</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">Valentian III: <a href="source/valentian1.asp">Edict on Power of Roman See</a>, 445.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Leo I: <a href="source/leo1a.asp">On The Petrine Doctrine</a>. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09154b.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Leo I, the Great</a></li> <li class="H_body_text"> Leo I: <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360382.htm">Sermon 82: On the Feast of Peter and Paul</a>, [At New Advent]. <br /> Makes clear the importance of the presence of Peter and Paul in Rome for papal claims.</span></li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I the Great (r.590-604): <a href="source/greg1a.asp">Letters showing Papal Activity</a>. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06780a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Pope St. Gregory I, the Great</a> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I the Great (r.590-604): <a href="source/600papalestates.asp">The Papal Estates</a>, c. 600 </li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I the Great (r.590-604): <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3601.htm">The Book of Pastoral Rule</a>,c.590, full text [At New Advent]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I the Great (r.590-604): <a href="source/590greg1-pastoralrule2.asp">The Book of Pastoral Rule</a>, excerpts, c.590</li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I the Great (r.590-604: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070307085214/http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/gregory.html">Moralia in Iob</a>, draft translation by James O'Donnell, [Was At U Penn, now Internet Archive]</span></li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I the Great (r.590-604): <a href="https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/lastmoralia.english.html">Moralia in Iob: Discussion of His Own Mind</a> (d. 604) (Gregory,聽<em>Moralia</em>聽35.20.49) , from the translation by James O'Donnell, [At Georgetown] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200222205239/https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/lastmoralia.english.html">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I the Great (r.590-604): <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/gregory_00_dialogues_eintro.htm">The Dialogues</a>, c. 600, full text [At Tertullian] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210314091642/http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/gregory_00_dialogues_intro.htm">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Paulus Diaconus (Paul the Deacon): <a href="source/pauldeacon-gregIa.asp">Pope Gregory the Great and the Lombards</a>, c. 593</li> <li class="H_body_text">Bede: <a href="source/bede-greggrea.asp">Gregory the Great</a>, from the <i>Ecclesiastical History</i>.</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/675Counciloftoledo-creed.asp">Creed of the Council of Toledo 675</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">Pope Agatho (r. 678-681): <a href="https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214/npnf214.xiii.v.html">Letter to the Emperor and to the Bishops Convening at the Second Council of Constantople</a> 680 [CCEL] [Same <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3813.htm">document</a> at New Advent]<br /> The pope claims the infallibility of the Roman Church. </li> <li class="H_body_text"><font color="#D05653">WEB</font><strong> </strong><a href="https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/">Documenta Catholica Omnia</a> <br /> Materia: Omnium Paparum, Conciliorum, Ss Patrum, Doctorum Scriptorumque Ecclesiae qui ab Aevo Apostolico ad usque Benedicti XVI Tempora Floruerunt [Of all the Popes, Councils, Holy Fathers, Doctors and Scriptures of the Church who flourished from the Apostolic Age until the time of Benedict XVI). Useful site which mounts and points to full text sources related to the history of the Roman Catholic Church. All in Latin.</li> </ul> <hr /> <span class="H_body_text"><a name="Monasticism to A.D. 900" id="Monasticism to A.D. "></a></span><span class="H_Subitle">Monasticism to A.D. 900</span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text"><font color="#D05653">WEB</font></li> <li class="H_body_text">Eastern Origins </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Palladius: <a href="basis/palladius-lausiac.asp">The Lausiac History</a> [extended excerpts] <br /> Lives of early ascetics, monks, and nuns</li> <li class="H_body_text">Athanasius: <a href="basis/vita-antony.asp">Life of Anthony</a>. Full text. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01553d.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Anthony</a>, or <a href="http://biblestudy.churches.net/CCEL/A/ATHANASI/ATHANASI.HTM">Encyclopeadia Britannica (9th ed): Athanasius</a> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Rule of St. Basil <br /> See also John Burke: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981203071626/http://niwg.op.org/wogproj.htm">St. Basil the Great - his person and his preaching</a> [At Internet Archive, from op.org] : <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02330b.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Basil the Great</a>; and <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10467a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Eastern Monasticism</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Celtic Monasticism </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">see Early <a href="sbook1g.asp">Celtic World</a> section</li> <li> <span class="H_body_text"> </span><a href="source/columba-rule.asp">Rule of St. Columba</a>, 6th Cent.</li> <li class="H_body_text">St. Columban (d. 615): <a href="source/columban1.asp">Boat Song</a>, 600.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Jocelyn, a monk of Furness:  <a href="basis/Jocelyn-LifeofKentigern.asp">The Life of Kentigern (Mungo)</a>, translated by Cynthia Whidden Green.</li> <li class="H_body_text">2ND Cynthia Whidden Green: <a href="basis/CynthiaWhiddenGreen-SaintKentigern1998.asp">Saint Kentigern, Apostle to Strathclyde: A critical analysis of a northern saint</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">Caradoc of Llancarfan: <a href="basis/1150-Caradoc-LifeofGildas.asp">The Life of Gildas</a>,1130-1150. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">The Benedictine Movement </span> <ul> <li> <span class="H_body_text"> <a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/mission/campusministry/RegularSpiritualPractices/resources/spirituality/about/rule/chapters.html">The Rule of St. Augustine</a>, [At Villanova] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190812121028/https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/mission/campusministry/RegularSpiritualPractices/resources/spirituality/about/rule/chapters.html">here</a>] and in <a href="http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/augustine/reg.shtml">Latin</a> [At The Latin Library]. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02079b.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Rule of St. Augustine</a></span></li> <li><a href="https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/ruleaug.html">The Rule of St. Augustine</a>, [At Georgetown] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210616003141/https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/ruleaug.html">here</a>] </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/rul-benedict.asp">Rule of St. Benedict</a>. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02436a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Rule of St. Benedict</a>. </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/rul-benedict-excerp.asp">The Rule of Saint Benedict</a>, shorter excerpts, ca. 530. </li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I (Dialogos) (r.590-604): <a href="basis/g1-benedict1.asp">Second Dialogue (Life of St. Benedict)</a>.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Bede (673-735): <a href="basis/bede-cuthbert.asp">The Life of Cuthbert</a>, full text.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Bede (673-735): <a href="basis/bede-jarrow.asp">The Lives of the Abbots of Weremouth and Jarrow</a>.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Rudolf of Fulda: <a href="basis/leoba.asp">Life of Leoba</a>, c. 836, full text. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <hr /> <span class="H_body_text"><a name="The Conversion of Europe" id="The Conversion of Europe2"></a></span><span class="H_Subitle">The Conversion of Europe</span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">The Franks </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/496clovis.asp">The Conversion of Clovis: Two Accounts</a>, 496 <br /> by The Chronicle of St. Denis, and Gregory of Tours.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory of Tours (539-594): <a href="source/gregory-clovisconv.asp">The Conversion of Clovis</a>, from <i>History of the Franks</i>, Book II.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Celtic Missions </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Adamnan: <a href="basis/columba-e.asp">Life of St. Columba</a> and <a href="basis/columba-l.asp">Latin Text: Book I and Book II, cc.1-30</a>.  <br /> St. Columba, who established the monastery at Iona, was one of the most famous of the Irish missionary saints.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Jonas the Monk: <a href="basis/columban.asp">Life of St. Columban</a>, d. 615., [Full text] Columban travelled and worked in Merovingian Gaul. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02605b.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Abbey and Diocese of Bobbio</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">England </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text"> Bede (673-735): <a href="source/bede1.asp"><i>Ecclesiastical History</i> The Conversion of England</a>. The selection in Geary is slightly longer. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02384a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: The Venerable Bede</a> and <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15610a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: Synod of Whitby</a>.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Gregory I (r.590-604): <a href="source/601gregory1-lettertomellitus.asp">Letter to Abbot Mellitus</a>, 601</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/unc.htm">Anglo-Saxon Charms</a>, trans. Karen Jolly. [At Univ. Hawaii][Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120321055400/http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly/unc.htm">here</a>]</li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Germany </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/st_robert.asp">Two Lives of SS. Rupert (Robert), Apostle to Austria, and Erenruda (Erentraud)</a>.</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/8Cconversionofthebavarians-couser.asp">Die Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum </a>(The Conversion of the Bavarians and Carantanians) inc. <em>Life of St Rupert</em>, trans. Jonathan Couser, late 8th/early 9th centuries.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Alcuin: <a href="basis/Alcuin-willbrord.asp">The Life of Willibrord</a>, c.796 </li> <li class="H_body_text">Willibald: <a href="basis/willibald-boniface.asp">The Life of St. Boniface</a> </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="basis/boniface-letters.asp">The Correspondence of St. Boniface</a> </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="source/boniface1.asp">Texts about St. Boniface</a>. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02656a.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: St Boniface</a>.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Scandinavia </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Rimbert: <a href="basis/anskar.asp">The Life of Anskar, the Apostle of the North, 801-865</a>, full text. See also <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01544c.htm">Catholic Encyclopedia: St Anschar</a>.</li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">The Slavs </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Pope Nicholas I: <a href="basis/866nicholas-bulgar.asp">Responses to the Questions of the Bulgars</a> A.D. 866 (Letter 99), trans. W. North, full text.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Bruno of Querfurt: <a href="https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/83/2019/06/Bruno_of_Querfurt_Letter_to_Henry_II_for_MARS_website.pdf">Letter to Henry II</a> 1008/1009聽trans William North. PDF [At Carleton] [Internet Archive version聽<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230210193827/https://carleton-wp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/83/2019/06/Bruno_of_Querfurt_Letter_to_Henry_II_for_MARS_website.pdf">here</a>] <br /> Bruno writes of German missionary and diplomatic among Slavic pagans. <br /> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Rus </span> <ul> <li> <span class="H_body_text"> <i>Russian Primary Chronicle</i>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030618105557/http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/christin.html">The Christianisation of Russia</a>, 988. [Was At Univ.Durham, now at Internet Archive]</span></span></li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Other Missionary Areas </span> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Ch'ing-Tsing: <a href="/halsall/eastasia/781nestorian.asp">Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion in China</a>, with a Preface, composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 A.D. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <hr /> <span class="H_body_text">NOTES: copyrighted means the text is not available for free distribution. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. 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