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On His Family
St. Gregory the Theologian · image, Copyrighted free use
St. Gregory's family is a family of saints. Here are the sermons he gave at the funerals of his brother Caesarius, a court physician, his sister Gorgonia, a wife and mother, and his father Gregory, bishop of Nazianzus.
They show holiness lived in ordinary callings, by people he loved.
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About this edition
Translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 7 (1894), 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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