The Catholic Saints Reading Challenge

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Cure of Ars' date='Dec 29 2005, 04:13 PM']The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1963)
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Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran.

[Cure of Ars]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Dec 31 2005, 07:43 AM']Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran.
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[Laudate_Dominum]

As promised, I've tried to provide a decent text or two for each of the 50 year periods I claimed above. Each period ought to have at least one text that is actually available in English (and linked .

This list only scratches the surface and I know I have forgotten many important people and texts.. Anyhow, I got tired of working on it so this is what I've got. I hope it helps.


[b]750-800[/b]

Paul the Deacon
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812210794/qid=1136040310/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]History of the Lombards[/url]
- Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict
- Sermons
- Letters and Poems

St Boniface
- Letters
- Poems
- Poenitentiale
- Sermons

St. Alcuin
- Libellus de Sancta Trinitate
- De virtutibus et vitiis
- De animae ratione
- On the Confession of Sins
- Nine Scriptural commentaries
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/882100564X/qid=1136043682/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Liber Alcuini contra haeresim Felicis[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0900657219/qid=1136043449/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Letters[/url]

St. Paulinus II
- Libellus Sacrosyllabus contra Elipandum
- Libri III contra Felicem
- Carmen de regula fidei
- The Liturgical Hymns

St. Theophanes
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198225687/qid=1136049952/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]The Chronicles[/url]


[b]850-900[/b]

Sts. Cyril and Methodius
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809101432/qid=1136040537/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]A Treatise on Chastity[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00085GH04/qid=1136040537/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Selections[/url]

Eriugena
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0268042217/qid=1136040734/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Treatise on Divine Predestination[/url]
- Commentaries on the Gospel of John
- Commentaries on Pseudo-Dionysius
- De Divisione Naturae
- De Egressu et Regressu Animae ad Deum
- Poems

Photius
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0715626124/qid=1136040813/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Bibliotheca (Myriobiblion)[/url]
- Lexeon synagoge
- Amphilochia
- Biblical Commentaries
- Sermons
- Peri tes tou hagiou pneumatos mystagonias
- Diegesis peri tes manichaion anablasteseos
- 193 Letters

St. Paschasius Radbertus
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006BRM54/qid=1136041168/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Charlemagne's cousins[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2503038514/qid=1136041199/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Pascasii Radberti Expositio in Lamentationes Hieremiae libri quinque[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/250303568X/qid=1136041199/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Paschasii Radberti De partu virginis[/url]

Alfred the Great
- Adaptation of the Consolation of Philosophy

Pope St. Nicholas I
- Responsa Nicolai ad consulta Bulgarorum

St. Rimbert
- Biography of St. Ansgar


[b]900-950[/b]

St. Odo of Cluny
- The Life of St. Gerald of Aurillac
- The Collationes (three books)
- Sermons
- Occupatio (several books)

St. Berno of Cluny
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0937191353/qid=1136042840/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]De Contemptu Mundi[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00085Z05W/qid=1136042840/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Jerusalem the golden[/url]


[b]950-1000[/b]
Abbot Odilo
- The Life of St. Adelaide
- The Life of Mayeul
- Sermons
- Hymns and Prayers
- Letters

St. Symeon the New Theologian
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809122308/qid=1136041567/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]The Discourses[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881411434/qid=1136041567/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]On the Mystical Life[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0000085553/qid=1136041631/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Hymns of Divine Love[/url]

Pope Sylvester II
- De corpore et sanguine Domini
- Countless other works; philosophical, mathematical and theological in nature.
- Invented the pendulum clock

[i]I'm skipping over tenth-ish century figures such as St. Liutberga, Maximinus Abbot of Miny, Lebuin, Gregory of Nicopolis, Romuald, Hugh of Fleury, etc. Read up on the carolingians for more stuff within 900-999 AD.[/i]

[b]1000-1050[/b]

St. Peter Damian (doctor of the Church)
- An array of theological and philosophical works too vast to be listed here.
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081321372X/qid=1136051786/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Letters[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2503035728/qid=1136051896/sr=1-15/ref=sr_1_15/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Sermons[/url]

Alberic of Monte Cassino
- Refuted the heresy of Berengarius
- Composed several theological and scientific works, lives of saints, etc.
- Of note: De dictamine
- Letters

Fulbert of Chartres
- 140 epistles, 2 treatises, 27 hymns
- Tractatus contra Judaeos
- The life of St. Aubert
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198222335/qid=1136045042/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Letters and Poems[/url]

Abbot Guido of Arezzo
- Micrologus de disciplina artis musicae
- Regulae de ignoto cantu
- Epistola Michaeli monaco de ignoto cantu directa

Abbot William
- Sermons
- Treatise on the Epistle to the Romans
- Letters
- The Testament

St. Bruno
- Commentaries on the Psalms
- Commentaries on St. Paul
- Sermons

Tighernach O'Braein
- The Annals


[b]1300-1350[/b]

Blessed Angela of Foligno
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809133660/ref=pd_bxgy_img_b/103-7009745-0101406?%5Fencoding=UTF8"]Memorial and Instructions[/url]

Jacopone da Todi
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809123754/qid=1136053818/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Lauds[/url]

Dante
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679433139/qid=1136053791/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Divine Comedy[/url]

Meister Eckhart
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140433430/qid=1136053510/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Selections[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1852300051/qid=1136053510/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Sermons and Treatises[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809123703/qid=1136053493/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]The essential sermons, treatises, commentaries, etc.[/url]

St. Gregory Palamas
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809124475/qid=1136053368/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Triads[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/187899767X/qid=1136053368/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Sermons[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00070YE8M/qid=1136053450/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Defense of the holy hesychasts [/url]

Gregory of Rimini
- Lectura in primum et secundum librum Sententiarum
- De usuris
- Commentaries on the Epistles of St. James and St. Paul

Alvarus Pelagius
- De planctu ecclesiae libri duo
- Collyrium adversus haereses
- Speculum regum
- Super sentent. libros 4
- Apologia contra Marsilum Patav. et Guliel. Ocham

Ranulf Higden
- Speculum curatorum
- Ars Componendi Sermones
- Paedagogicon
- Distinctiones Theologicae
- Expositio super Job
- In Cantica Canticorum
- Sermones per annum
- Determinationes super Compendio
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006DLXXY/qid=1136046918/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Polychronicon[/url]

Raymond Lull
- Authored around 300 works (too many too list here) pertaining the philosophy and theology as an evangelist to the Muslims.

John Tauler
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895550822/qid=1136054986/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Spiritual Conferences[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809126850/qid=1136055017/sr=1-15/ref=sr_1_15/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Sermons[/url]

Bl. Simon of Cascia
- De gestis Christis
- Expositio super evangelia
- De beata Virgine
- De doctrina christiana
- De vita christiana
- De cognitione peccati
- Expositio symboli
- De speculo crucis
- De conflictu christiano

Bl. Henry Suso
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809129868/qid=1136055278/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]The Exemplar[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007I0F46/qid=1136055278/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Letters[/url]


[b]1400-1450[/b]

St. Bernardine of Siena
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00087KTAQ/qid=1136052958/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Sermons[/url]
- Too much more to list.

St. John of Capistrano
- Sermons
- Letters
- Various treatises dealing with the heresies of his day

Nicholas Albergati
- Numerous profound theological treatises

St. Colette
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00088K8MY/qid=1136053221/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Stuff of interest[/url]

Nicholas of Osimo
- Supplementum Summae Magistratiae seu Pisanellae
- Quadriga Spirituale

Nicholas of Cusa
- De concordantia catholica
- De auctoritate præsidendi in concilio generali
- De docta ignorantia
- De conjecturis
- De cribratione alchorani
- De quaerendo Deum
- De filiatione Dei
- De visione Dei
- Excitationum libri X
- Reparatio Calendarii

St. Antonius of Florence
- Life of Bl. John Dominic
- A History of the World
- A Summa of Moral Theology

Blessed Giovanni Dominici
- Lauds
- Regola del governo di cura familiare
- Lucula Noctis

Heinrich von Dissen
- Commentaries on Scripture
- De Sacerdotii dignitate
- De multiplici bonorum verecundia
- Quo pacto haereticorum fraudes deprehendi queant
- Expositio in totum Missale
- Expositio Antiphonarii
- Consolationes in Cantica Canticorum
- De XIII mansionibus

Jean Gerson
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809138204/qid=1136053875/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Early Writings[/url]

John of Ragusa
- Discourse against the Hussites
- Important Works on Scriptural Greek etymology

[i]Raymond of Capua, John Ruusbroec, Catherine of Genoa and a zillion others are hard to place because I'm not sure if they wrote within the periods involved here, even if they were technically alive.[/i]

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Ziggamafu' date='Dec 31 2005, 07:26 AM']Is Sermon to the Birds really by St. Francis? I thought there weren't any actual writings left by him...cool!
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p.s. the sermon to the birds is an event, not a text. Something like the admonitions or the rule would be best probably. That classics of western spirituality volume has these, but the omnibus would be even better.. didn't see it on amazon, but I didn't look all that hard.

[phatcatholic]

sean................that's great man! i'll work on seeing if any of those works are available online.

[Ziggamafu]

this is one of the coolest threads, ever.

...and it should definitely get a sticky or put in the reference section or whatever once it's all finalized.

phatmass rocks.

[Cure of Ars]

Ziggamafu you came up with a very good idea.

Here is a cool excel time line template.

[url="http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/create-a-timeline.html"]http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/create-a-timeline.html[/url]


I put our info for the first 500 years on the time line.


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It's on my blog if you can't see it. Click on the picter there so you can see a close up.


Also happy new year. I'm going to go eat some chips and hang out.

Edited January 1, 2006 by Cure of Ars

[phatcatholic]

link to Cure's blog:
[url="http://cureofars.blogspot.com/"]http://cureofars.blogspot.com/[/url]

[phatcatholic]

btw, that timeline is dope!

[shortnun]

[quote name='Cure of Ars' date='Dec 29 2005, 05:13 PM']Hildegard of Bingen, (1141-1179)

[url="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/"]Summa Theologica[/url], St. Thomas Aquinas,  (1271)

[url="http://www.cfpeople.org/Books/Dialog/cfptoc.htm"]The Dialogue[/url], Catherine of Siena, (1380)

[url="http://www.karmel.at/ics/john/dn.html"]Dark Night of the Soul[/url], St. John of the Cross, (1591)

Story of a Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux, (1897)
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[quote name='Cure of Ars' date='Dec 29 2005, 05:13 PM']The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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In my opinion, still a great read--regardless of him being a Lutheran.

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Dec 31 2005, 12:37 PM']Meister Eckhart
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140433430/qid=1136053510/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Selections[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1852300051/qid=1136053510/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]Sermons and Treatises[/url]
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809123703/qid=1136053493/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-7009745-0101406?s=books&v=glance&n=283155"]The essential sermons, treatises, commentaries, etc.[/url]
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[Ziggamafu]

Who is Meister Eckhart, anyway? I've heard / read the name in passing before...

[shortnun]

[quote name='Ziggamafu' date='Jan 3 2006, 03:25 PM']Who is Meister Eckhart, anyway? I've heard / read the name in passing before...
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[url="http://www.op.org/eckhart/meister.htm"]A wonderful Dominican mystic!!![/url]

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='shortnun' date='Jan 3 2006, 09:15 PM'][url="http://www.op.org/eckhart/meister.htm"]A wonderful Dominican mystic!!![/url]
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very informative, thanks shortnun

[Cure of Ars]

Didache, (50-120)
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, St. Clement (80-140)
Apology, St. Justin Martyr (148-155)
Against Heresies, St. Irenaeus, (182-188)
The Passion of Saint Perpetua and Felicity, St. Perpetua, (203)
On the Mortality, St. Cyprian (252)
Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius, St. Alexander of Alexandria (321)
Life of St. Antony, St. Athanasius, (356-362)
De Spiritu Santo, St. Basil the Great, (364)
On the Mysteries, St. Ambrose, (374-379)
Confessions, St. Augustine, (397-398)
Life of Moses, St. Gregory of Nyssa, (335-394)
The Incarnation and Human Dignity, St. Peter Chrysologus, (433-450)
Letter XIV, St. Leo the Great, (440-461)
The Confession, St. Patrick, (460-493)
Formula Hormisdas, St, Hormisdas, (519)
The Rule of St. Benedict, St. Benedict of Nursia, (480-543)
The Green Pastures of Heaven, St. Gregory the Great, (590-604)
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, St. John Climacus, (600)
Philokalia, St. Maximus the Confessor, (682)
Conversion of England, St. Bede the Venerable, (735)
Freewill and Destiny, St. John Damascene, (749)
Poenitentiale, St Boniface, (754)
Reform Rules, St. Theodore of Studium, (826)
A Letter of Bishop Amulo of Lyon, Bishop Amulo (850)
A Treatise on Chastity, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, (867)
The Life of St. Adelaide, Abbot Odilo, (942)
Life of St. Romuald, St. Peter Damian, (1042)
Discourse on the Existence of God, St. Anselm, (1093-1109)
On Loving God, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, (1129- 1131)
Scivias, Hildegard of Bingen, (1141-1179)
The Admonitions , St. Francis of Assisi, (1220)
Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas, (1271)
Mind’s Journey into God, St. Bonaventure, (1274)
De gestis Christis, Bl. Simon of Cascia, (1348)
The Dialogue, St. Catherine of Siena, (1380)
The Imitation of Christ, Thomas A Kempis, (1471)
Treatise on Purgatory, St. Catherine of Genoa, (1510)
Interior Castle, St. Teresa of Avila, (1579)
The Sinner’s Guide, Venerable Louis of Granda, (1588)
Dark Night of the Soul, St. John of the Cross, (1591)
Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales (1622)
The Practice of the Presence of God, Bro. Lawrence, (1691)
True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, St. Louis de Montfort, (1716)
Uniformity with God’s Will, St. Alphonsus Liguori, (1752)
Apologia, Venerable John Henry Newman,(1845)
Story of a Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux, (1897)
Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton, (1936)
Diary of St. Maria Faustina, St. Faustina, (1905-1938)
Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI, (1968)
On the Way to Christ, Pope Benedict XVI, (2005)


Disclaimer:(The dates given are sometime based on the death of the author if I could not find the date of the work.)

So here is our list so far. Anyone have any issues with the list? Are there better works that we should use for each fifty years?

Edited January 6, 2006 by Cure of Ars

[phatcatholic]

it looks like we have them all but these two periods:
950-1000 and 1400-1450

also, if we want to be real particular about it, the following periods are covered, but not by saints:
900-950 (Abbot Odilo)
1150-1200 (Hildegard of Bingen)
1300-1350 (Bl. Simon of Cascia)
1450-1500 (Thomas A Kempis)
1650-1700 (Bro. Lawrence)
1800-1850 (Venerable John Henry Newman)

1950-2000 and 2000-2050 may not be possible to list (i'm not sure)