{"product_id":"catena-aurea","title":"Catena Aurea: Complete in Five Volumes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVerbum caro factum est. The Fathers of the Church on the four Gospels, set in order as links in a golden chain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .4em;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is set and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOn release, each volume is ordered separately, and orders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eCatena Aurea\u003c\/em\u003e, the Golden Chain, is Saint Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the four Gospels, made about the year 1263 at the request of Pope Urban IV. It is unlike his other works. Aquinas writes almost nothing in his own voice, but gathers from the Greek and Latin Fathers, Chrysostom, Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Gregory, Bede and many more, the sentences that best open each verse, and sets them in order as links in a chain, every one named with its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor each passage the Gospel text is given first, and beneath it the comments of the Fathers in succession, so that the reader has, in one continuous reading, the mind of the early Church upon the Gospel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Sanctified Souls Press edition presents the whole of the \u003cem\u003eCatena\u003c\/em\u003e in the translation edited by John Henry Newman, Oxford, 1841 to 1845, in five volumes on cream paper. The editors' textual apparatus is set aside for continuous reading; the Scripture references and every Father-by-Father attribution are kept.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe volumes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:.5em 0 1.8em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume I  ·  The Gospel of St. Matthew, Part One\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eChapters 1 to 13, with the compiler's introduction: from the genealogy and the Nativity through the Sermon on the Mount and the parables of the kingdom. Paperback and hardcover, 552 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume II  ·  The Gospel of St. Matthew, Part Two\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eChapters 14 to 28: from the feeding of the five thousand and the Transfiguration through the discourse on the last things to the Passion and the Resurrection. Paperback and hardcover, 508 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume III  ·  The Gospel of St. Mark\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe shortest and swiftest of the Gospels, from the preaching of John the Baptist to the empty tomb, opened verse by verse. Paperback and hardcover, 380 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume IV  ·  The Gospel of St. Luke\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe Gospel of mercy: the Infancy narratives, the parables of the lost sheep and the prodigal son, and the long journey to Jerusalem. Paperback and hardcover, 816 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume V  ·  The Gospel of St. John\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe Gospel of the Word made flesh: from In the beginning was the Word to the Resurrection, with Chrysostom, Augustine and the Fathers upon the deepest of the four. Paperback and hardcover, 654 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), of the Order of Preachers, Doctor of the Church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslation edited by John Henry Newman, John Henry Parker, Oxford, 1841–1845\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne work complete, in five volumes: St. Matthew in two parts, then St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 0;\"\u003eCover: \u003cem\u003eSt. Thomas Aquinas Aided by Sts. Peter and Paul\u003c\/em\u003e, Bartolomeo degli Erri (Italian, active c. 1450–1480), tempera on wood. Public domain. 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