Book. Valentin. Saint Prosper d’Aquitaine : étude sur la littérature latine ecclésiastique au cinquième siècle en Gaule. 1900.

Saint Prosper d’Aquitaine : étude sur la littérature latine ecclésiastique au cinquième siècle en Gaule

Author: Valentin, L [?-?]
Publication date: 1900
Topics: Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, ca. 390-ca. 463
Publisher: Paris: A. Picard
Collection: pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language: French

Book. Quentin. Les martyrologes historiques du Moyen-Âge : étude sur la formation du martyrologe romain. 1908.

Les martyrologes historiques du Moyen-Âge :

étude sur la formation du martyrologe romain

Author: Quentin, Henri, 1872-1935
Publication date: 1908
Topics: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735, Florus, of Lyons, d. 860, Ado, Saint, Archbishop of Vienne, ca. 800-875, Catholic Church, Martyrologies, Hagiography, Christian saints
Publisher: Paris : V. Lecoffre : J. Gabalda
Collection: pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language: French

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Etat de la critique des martyrologes historiques — Le martyrologe de Béde — Le martyrologe poétique d’Achery — Le martyrologe lyonnais du manuscrit latin 3879 de la Bibliothèque National — Le martyrologe de Florus de Lyon — Le “Vetus” ou “Parvum Romanum” — Le martyrologe d’Adon

Book. Alfaric. L’évolution intellectuelle de sain Augustin. Du manichéisme au néoplatonisme. 1918.

L’évolution intellectuelle de saint Augustin

Author: Alfaric, Prosper, 1876-1955
Publication date: 1918-
Topics: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Publisher: Paris, E. Nourry
Collection: robarts; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: msn
Contributor: Robarts – University of Toronto
Language: French
Volume: 1 [Only this written/published?]
Subject, theme: 1. Du manichésime au néoplatonisme

Book. Lebreton. Histoire du dogme de la Trinité des origines au Concile de Nicée. Volumes 1 and 2. 1910.

Histoire du dogme de la Trinité des origines au Concile de Nicée

Author: Lebreton, Jules, 1873-1956
Publication date: 1910
Topics: Trinity
Publisher: [Paris, G. Beauchesne & cie]
Collection: pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language: French
Volumes: 1 and 2

Tome Ier. Les origines

Tome II. De Saint Clément a Saint Irénée

Book. Alfaric. Les écritures manichéennes. Volumes 1 and 2. 1918-1919.

Les écritures manichéennes

Author: Alfaric, Prosper, 1876-1955
Publication date: 1918-1919
Topics: Manichaeism, Christianity and other religions
Publisher: Paris, E. Nourry
Collection: pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language: French
Volumes: 1 and 2

I. Vue générale

II. Étude analytique

Book. Batiffol. L’Eglise naissante et le catholicisme. 1911.

L’Eglise naissante et le catholicisme

Author: Batiffol, Pierre, 1861-1929
Publication date: 1911
Publisher Paris: J. Gabalda
Collection: pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language: French

Book. Faye. Étude sur les origines des églises de l’âge apostolique. 1909.

Étude sur les origines des églises de l’âge apostolique

Author: Faye, Eugène de, 1860-1929
Publication date: 1909
Topics: Church history
Publisher: Paris, E. Leroux
Collection: pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language: French

Book. Puech. Les apologistes grecs du IIe siècle de notre ère. 1912.

Les apologistes grecs du IIe siècle de notre ère

Author: Puech, Aimé, 1860-
Publication date: 1912
Topics: Apologetics, Christian literature, Early
Publisher: Paris, Hachette et cie
Collection: pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language: French

Book. Baunard. Histoire de saint Ambroise. 1872.

Histoire de saint Ambroise

Author: Baunard, Mgr., 1826-1919
Publication date: 1872
Topics: Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
Publisher Paris : Ch. Poussièlgue
Collection pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto
Contributor: PIMS – University of Toronto
Language French
Includes bibliographic footnotes

Möhler. La patrologie, ou Histoire littéraire des trois premiers siècles de l’Eglise Chrétienne. Volumes I & II. 1843.

La patrologie, ou Histoire littéraire des trois premiers siècles de l’Eglise Chrétienne

Oeuvre posthume de J.-A. Moehler,
publiée
par F.-X. Reithmayer,
Professeur extraordinaire de Théologie a l’Université Louis-Maximilien, à Munich,
Traduite de l’allemand
Par Jean Cohen,
Bibliothécaire à Sainte-Geneviève.
PARIS. Debécourt, Libraire-Éditeur, Rue des Saints-Péres, 64. 1843.

Author Möhler, Johann Adam, 1796-1838
Publication date 1843
Topics Fathers of the church, Christian literature, Early, Church history
Publisher Paris : Debécourt
Collection pimslibrary; toronto
Digitizing sponsor University of Toronto
Contributor PIMS – University of Toronto
Language French
Volumes 1 & 2
Call number 3019519

Möhler. La patrologie, ou Histoire littéraire des trois premiers siècles de l’Eglise Chrétienne. Volume I…. by Patrologia Latina, Graeca et Orientalis on Scribd

Möhler. La patrologie, ou Histoire littéraire des trois premiers siècles de l’Eglise Chrétienne. Volume II…. by Patrologia Latina, Graeca et Orientalis on Scribd

Tome I available in Internet Archive.
Tome II available in Internet Archive.

Budge. The book of governors [by Thomas, Bishop of Marga]. Volumes 1 & 2. 1893

The book of governors

by Thomas, Bishop of Marga

Editor, translator Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Publication date 1893
Topics Beth Abbe (Nestorian monastery), Nestorian Church — History
Publisher London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd.
Collection majorityworldcollection; Princeton; americana
Digitizing sponsor Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Contributor Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Language English
Volumes 1 & 2
2 volumes : 22 cm

Vol. I has added t.-p. in Syriac

History of the monastery of Beth Abhe and of Nestorianism for three centuries

I. The Syriac text, introduction, etc.–II. The English translation

The object of the present work is to give in a convenient form the complete Syriac text of the “Book of Governors”, together with an English translation and necessary notes.
The “Book of Governors”, better known as the “Historia Monastica of Thomas of Margâ”, was written in the Syriac language in the first half of the ninth century of our era. Its author Thomas was originally a monk in the famous Nestorian Monastery of Bêth ‘Âbhê, which was founded at the end of the sixth century by Jacob of Lâshôm, the modern Lasim near Kerkûk. Bêth ‘Âbhê was practically an offshoot of the “Great Monastery” of Mount Îzlâ near Nisibis, where the first Christian ascetics of Mesopotamia, under the direction of Mâr Awgîn of Clysma near Suez, established themselves in the early part of the fourth century. It was a building half fortress, half monastery, and it stood in a forest (hence the name Bêth ‘Âbhê, i. e., “house of the forest”) upon a mountain peak between two valleys on the right bank of the Great Zâb river. This monastery had been endowed with large estates and many possessions by several Persian noblemen, and to it was given the proud title of the “King of Monasteries”; its society generally contained several members of noble Persian families. The monks of Bêth ‘Âbhê were renowned for their learning, and under the shadow of its walls the revision and re-arrangement of the “Ḥudhrâ” or Service-Book for all the Sundays of the Year were made, and the famous recension of the Syriac version of the “Paradise” of Palladius was completed. Attached to the monastery was a fine ecclesiastical library in which were preserved copies of histories and other works which are no longer extant. Four, if not five, of the Patriarchs of the Nestorian Church were educated at Bêth ‘Âbhê, and during the period of which we have any written record of its existence, i. e., A.D., 595—850, at least one hundred of its sons became Bishops, Metropolitans, and Governors of Nestorian dioceses in Mesopotamia, Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Kurdistan and China.


Available too in Scribd:
Volume I. The Syriac text, introduction, etc.
Volume II. The English translation

Article. Brian Lowery, OSA. Reflections on some “spontaneous” prayers in the Confessions of St. Augustine.

One of the more immediately striking features of the Confessions of St. Augustine to the modern reader is the fact that they are addressed to God and not to him or her. You see it in Augustine’s constant use of the word “you”, “tu”, “tibi” referring to God and not to us. There are a few exceptions where the reader is addressed, if only indirectly, for example, when Augustine requests prayers for his deceased parents (IX,13,37) or when he tells us not to scorn him as he relates to us his errors, saying that the same physician who healed him then could be applying preventive medicine to us now (II,7,15). However, even these statements go through God before arriving at us.

This is the reason God seems so close when you read the Confessions. Something is happening on those pages. God and Augustine are in conversation. It’s not like someone telling us interesting things about self and God. It is prayer going on right before our very eyes, and we are let in on it.

We can sense two directions in the conversation. First, Augustine is speaking to God. He speaks about many things: his childhood, his young manhood; his joys, his sorrows, his failures and sins, his discoveries, his liberation. In the second God is speaking to Augustine. In particular, God is moving Augustine to prayer. This is readily discernible in moments of what seem like spontaneous outbursts in scattered places of the book. In these passages Augustine changes tense: from the past, where he tells us of what once happened, to the present where he breaks into prayer then and there as if stirred directly by God. A good example is found in Book VII. In the midst of telling us about his first inner experience of God after being enlightened by the Neo-Platonists, he comes out with the prayer:

O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God. I sigh to you by day and by night. (Confessions VII, 10, 16)

Were the prayers really spontaneous? At first glance it seems so. Some come at heightened moments in the story as if they were sudden responses to something vividly remembered. For the Confessions were just that: a return to the past to see where God had been all along the path to conversion. Augustine found God acting in the most surprising of places: in a book, in a person, in a sorrow, in a joy, in a mistake, in a quandary, in the things of creation. At certain moments during these reminiscences he goes beyond his usual pattern of narration and explodes into prayer. He overflows the brim, so to speak. These are some of the best moments of the Confessions.

Article available here.