Thomas Aquinas
Dominican friar and theologian. At the request of Pope Urban IV he gathered the Catena Aurea, the 'Golden Chain': a verse-by-verse commentary on the four Gospels made entirely of passages from the Greek and Latin Fathers, from Chrysostom and Augustine to Bede.
Writings
English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. Matthew, part 1 (chapters 1–10) Older EnglishOCR text 11.8 h read
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. Matthew, part 2 (chapters 11–21) Older EnglishOCR text 10.1 h read
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. Matthew, part 3 (chapters 22–28) Older EnglishOCR text 7.6 h read
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. Mark Older EnglishOCR text 10.1 h read
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. Luke, part 1 (chapters 1–10) Older EnglishOCR text 11.4 h read
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. John, part 1 (chapters 1–10) Older EnglishOCR text 11.8 h read
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. Luke, part 2 (chapters 11–24) Older EnglishOCR text 12.2 h read
- Catena Aurea: Commentary on St. John, part 2 (chapters 11–21) Older EnglishOCR text 7.9 h read
Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.