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Written for catechists who had to answer pagans, Jews and heretics. St. Gregory explains why God became man, why the Cross, and how baptism and the Eucharist join us to Christ.
It is one of the first attempts to set out the whole faith in order.
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About this edition
Translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 5 (1893), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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