2014-06-13 15:43:00

When Pope Gregory writes to Saint Augustine


(Vatican Radio) Pope Saint Gregory the Great was a prolific letter writer. Among his letters were those to Saint Augustine of Canterbury, the man whom he sent off to England on a mission to convert the inhabitants of what he viewed as the last outpost of paganism. That's what our popular 'Latin Lover', Carmelite Father Reginald Foster tells us, adding how these letters seem so actual. Almost, he says, as if Gregory were chatting to us over the phone today.

Listen to this programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick for the series 'The Latin Lover', a pocket dictionary of sorts of the official language of the Catholic  Church:

 

 








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