Latin West
Fathers of Rome, North Africa, Italy, Gaul and Spain, who wrote in Latin.
Scillitan Martyrs
The oldest dated record of Christian martyrs in Africa, from Carthage.
1 workPerpetua and Felicity
The prison diary and martyrdom of two North African women.
2 worksTertullian
North African lawyer and the first great Latin theologian.
47 worksCyprian of Carthage
Bishop of Carthage, martyred under Valerian.
29 worksPontius the Deacon
Cyprian's deacon and the writer of his Life.
2 worksVictorinus of Pettau
Bishop and martyr; earliest Latin commentator on Revelation.
4 worksArnobius of Sicca
North African teacher who wrote against the pagans.
9 worksJuvencus
Spanish priest who put the four Gospels into Latin hexameters.
1 workJulius Firmicus Maternus
A convert from astrology who wrote against pagan religions.
1 workProba
Roman Christian poet who made a cento of Virgil on the Bible.
1 workLucifer of Cagliari
Bishop of Cagliari, a bitter opponent of Arianism and of compromise with it.
6 worksHilary of Poitiers
Bishop of Poitiers; defender of Nicene faith in the West.
14 worksPriscillian of Avila
Bishop of Avila, the first Christian put to death for heresy.
2 worksEgeria
A Western pilgrim whose account of her journey to the Holy Land survives.
1 workPhilastrius of Brescia
Bishop of Brescia who wrote a catalogue of heresies.
1 workOptatus of Milevis
African bishop who wrote against the Donatists.
3 worksAmbrose of Milan
Bishop of Milan who taught Augustine.
29 worksAnonymous pilgrims
Short anonymous guides for pilgrims to the Holy Land.
2 worksChromatius of Aquileia
Bishop of Aquileia and friend of Jerome.
1 workPaulinus of Nola
Roman senator who became bishop of Nola; poet and letter-writer.
2 worksRufinus of Aquileia
Translator of Origen and Eusebius into Latin.
7 worksPaulus Orosius
Spanish priest and friend of Augustine who wrote a history against the pagans.
3 worksCyprianus Gallus
Gallic poet who put the books of the Heptateuch into Latin verse.
1 workEvagrius of Gaul
Gallic author of a dialogue between a Jew and a Christian.
1 workEvodius of Uzalis
Bishop of Uzalis in Africa and a friend of Augustine.
1 workJerome
Translator of the Latin Vulgate and prolific biblical scholar.
48 worksSulpicius Severus
Biographer of Martin of Tours and church historian.
8 worksAugustine of Hippo
Bishop of Hippo, the most influential Latin father.
134 worksOrientius
Bishop, probably of Auch, who wrote Latin poems of moral teaching.
3 worksPossidius
Friend of Augustine and his biographer.
1 workClaudius Marius Victor
Gallic poet who wrote the Alethia, a verse commentary on Genesis.
1 workEucherius of Lyon
Bishop of Lyon and spiritual writer.
4 worksRusticus the Presbyter
Priest who wrote to Eucherius of Lyon.
1 workSedulius
Christian poet who wrote the Easter Song, a poem on the life of Christ.
6 worksVincent of Lérins
Monk of Lérins; wrote the Commonitory.
1 workPomponius
Author of a Latin poem addressed to the grace of the Lord.
1 workPaulinus of Pella
Gallic Christian poet who wrote an account of his life.
1 workLeo the Great
Bishop of Rome whose Tome shaped the Council of Chalcedon.
2 worksPaulinus of Périgueux
Poet who wrote the life of Martin of Tours in verse.
3 worksClaudianus Mamertus
Priest of Vienne in Gaul who wrote on the nature of the soul.
2 worksFaustus of Riez
Bishop of Riez; a leader of the semi-Pelagian party in Gaul.
5 worksVictor of Vita
Bishop who wrote the history of the Vandal persecution in Africa.
1 workSidonius Apollinaris
Gallic bishop, poet and letter writer.
12 worksGennadius of Massilia
Priest of Marseilles who continued Jerome's lives of illustrious men.
1 workRuricius of Limoges
Bishop of Limoges; his letters picture Gaul in the fifth century.
1 workSalvian the Presbyter
Gallic priest; wrote On the Government of God.
4 worksBoethius
Roman statesman and Christian philosopher, author of the Consolation of Philosophy.
2 worksTheodosius the Archdeacon
Pilgrim who wrote a short description of the Holy Land.
1 workAnonymous pilgrim of Piacenza
A pilgrim from Piacenza who described the holy places of Palestine and Egypt.
1 workGregory of Tours
Bishop of Tours in Gaul and the chief historian of the early Franks; his History of the Franks, in ten books, runs from Adam to his own day and is full of the lives of saints and bishops.
1 workLicinian of Cartagena
Bishop of Cartagena in Spain, correspondent of Gregory the Great.
1 workGregory the Great
Bishop of Rome; teacher of the medieval church.
15 worksAdomnán of Iona
Abbot of Iona; his De locis sanctis records a pilgrim's account of the Holy Land.
1 workRemigius of Auxerre
Teacher and commentator of the Carolingian age.
1 workPeter the Deacon of Monte Cassino
Librarian of Monte Cassino who reworked earlier accounts of the Holy Land.
1 workThomas 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.
8 worksNeale and Littledale (Commentary on the Psalms)
John Mason Neale and Richard Littledale, Anglican priests and scholars, put together a verse-by-verse commentary on the whole Psalter from the Fathers and medieval writers and from the hymns of the Roman, Ambrosian, Gallican, Greek, Coptic, Armenian and Syrian rites. Neale did the first volume and part of the second before his death in 1866, and Littledale finished the work.
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