Tau PublishingFive Sermons on the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sermones de Beata Maria Virgine · by Matthew of Aquasparta, OFM · Early Franciscan Ascetical Writings, Volume X
translated by Fr. Campion Murray, OFM
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-130-4
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-794-8
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-795-5
- Pages
- 214
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, August 2013
- Language
- English
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About this book
“Wisdom has built her house.” — Proverbs 9:1, the text of the first sermon
Matthew of Aquasparta, master at Paris, Minister General of the Friars Minor and cardinal, was the equal of the great Scholastics in eloquence and clarity. In these sermons he turns that gift to the feasts of the Mother of God: her Birth, the Annunciation, the Purification and the Assumption.
Mary appears as the house that Wisdom built, cleansed by holiness and founded on humility, and as the Queen taken up into glory, in preaching that joins the learning of the schools to tender devotion.
Translated by Campion Murray, OFM, from the 1962 Quaracchi edition of Caelestinus Piana, OFM, with its introduction on Matthew’s life, the manuscripts and the Marian sermons.
Inside
- Translator’s Preface
- Introduction: biographical notes, the manuscripts, the Marian sermons
- Sermons on the Birth, the Annunciation and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Sermons on the Assumption
- Appendix: abbreviations and Scripture references
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