Written in the first part of the fifth century, this work is a charming record of the observations of a Christian woman on a lengthy pilgrimage to the Holy Lands. Her firsthand account is a work of major significance for the fields of archaeology, church history, philology and comparative liturgy.

38. Egeria: Diary of a Pilgrimage (Ancient Christian Writers)

George E. Gingras

Religion & Spirituality

The Newman Press

These treatises date from the last third of the second century. Athenagoras of Athens belonged to that select group of Christian laymen known as the Apologists, who supported the successors of the Apostles in the ministry of the faith by defending that faith and pleading for a just hearing before the pagan majority and pagan overlords.

Embassy for the Christians, The Resurrection of the Dead (Ancient Christian Writers, 23)

Athenagoras

St. Clement's epistle, written c. 96, is called the first epistle, and is a model of a pastoral letter. The epistles of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Smyrna at the beginning of the second century, are addressed to six Christian communities.

01. The Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch (Ancient Christian Writers)

James A. Kleist

A distinguished and literate convert, as well as a former astrologer, Firmicus Maternus called for the ferocious and brutal destruction of paganism by the state. Addressing the brothers, emperors Constantius and Constans, this work was written no later than 350.

37. Firmicus Maternus: The Error of the Pagan Religions (Ancient Christian Writers)

History

Julius Firmicus Maternus

World

Augustine has given us here a fairly complete compendium of his whole theology and the system on which it rests.

03. St. Augustine: Faith, Hope and Charity (Ancient Christian Writers)

Louis A. Arand

Written about the year 405, this treatise is unique in that it embodies both a manual for the catechist and a catechesis for the prospective catechumen.

02. St. Augustine: The First Catechetical Instruction (Ancient Christian Writers)

Christian Books & Bibles

Saint, Augustine Of Hippo

Worship & Devotion

A monumental project which brings the English-speaking work key selections from the remarkable literature of early Christianity -- vertiable trasures of Christian faith and theology in superb translations.

09. St. Augustine: The Greatness of the Soul, The Teacher (Ancient Christian Writers)

Biographies & Memoirs

Joseph M. Colleran

Leaders & Notable People

Palladius has written an important history of early monasticism in Egypt with these biographic sketches or notes on some sixty holy men and women he had met or heard of. The work, dating from 419 or 420, is dedicated to Lausus, the royal chamberlain at the court of Emperor Theodosius II.

34. Palladius: The Lausiac History (Ancient Christian Writers)

33. Letters of St. Jerome, Vol. 1 (Ancient Christian Writers)

Charles Christopher Mierow

36. Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, Vol. 2: Ancient Christian Writers

P.G. Walsh

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