Life and Miracles of St. Benedict (Book Two of the Dialogues)

by St. Gregory the Great

Other authors: See the other authors section.

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
316	2	83,151	(4.17)	3
In his classic Second Book of Dialogues,Pope Gregory the Great lionizes Saint Benedict as hero and casts him predominantly in the role of miracle worker. Yet in his Rule, Benedict comes across more as a practical community organizer and premier spiritual father. In this volume, Terrence Kardong offers a fresh take on Gregory the Great's classic. He alternates between translated sections of the Diablo's and his own commentary. Crisp and direct, and infused with his wry and ever-present sense of humor, Kardong's writings sure to build up the spiritual life of readers and, equally important, to make them love St. Benedict. .… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by	StGregAbbLib, fxbunko, rebekahbar, cornellcatholic, bdvoracek
Legacy Libraries	Jack Kerouac

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 3 mentions

▾Member reviews

date ▼ | votes

Showing 2 of 2

This is such a lovely story. The miracles go too far for me, but they illustrate a man who lived for God and for others. (

)

MarthaJeanne | May 9, 2023 |

edited by Dom Edmund J. Luck O.S.B., priest of the Cassinese Congregation of the Primitive Observcance

GavinBowtell | Jul 7, 2009 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 2 of 2

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (18 possible)

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
St. Gregory the Great	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
de Dreuille, Mayeul	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kardong, Terrence G.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Luck, Edmund J.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Uhlfelder, Myra L.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

▾Series and work relationships

Belongs to Publisher Series

Già e non ancora [JacaBook] (47)

La grande biblioteca cristiana: i classici della tradizione cristiana [Famiglia Cristiana] (4)

The Library of Liberal Arts

Is contained in

Early Christian Lives (Penguin Classics) by Carolinne White

San Benito Su vida y su regla by San Benito

Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great by Gregory the Great

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Information from the Italian Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to your language.

Vita di S. Benedetto / La Regola

Original title

Dialogorum libri IV, 2

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Benedict of Nursia

Gregory I, ca. 540-604

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

This book was written by Gregory the Great, also known as Pope Gregory. To have your copy show up on the correct author page, please list Gregory the Great or Pope Gregory as the author. Thank you.

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

In his classic Second Book of Dialogues,Pope Gregory the Great lionizes Saint Benedict as hero and casts him predominantly in the role of miracle worker. Yet in his Rule, Benedict comes across more as a practical community organizer and premier spiritual father. In this volume, Terrence Kardong offers a fresh take on Gregory the Great's classic. He alternates between translated sections of the Diablo's and his own commentary. Crisp and direct, and infused with his wry and ever-present sense of humor, Kardong's writings sure to build up the spiritual life of readers and, equally important, to make them love St. Benedict. .

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary