Saint Thomas Aquinas

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Century XIII

Spanish – English

A continuous exposition of the Gospel according to Saint Mark, woven by Saint Thomas from the texts of the Fathers of the Church (Chrysostom, Augustine, Jerome, Bede, Gregory, Cyril, Theophylact, the Gloss and many others), passage by passage. Commissioned by Pope Urban IV and composed between 1263 and 1268. Spanish translation distributed by Biblia Clerus and the Oxford English translation (1842) edited by J. H. Newman.

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