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Once more on the sermons of St. Gerald

Summary/Abstract: In 1985, analysing the legends of the saint, the author already discussed the sermons of Saint Gerald (c. 980--1046). Then he came to the conclusion that the 14th-century Legenda maior Sancti Gerardi modernized the data of its lost source precisely concerning the subject of the preaching to an extent, giving into the saint's mouth sermones that became regular around the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, that its data can be accepted partially and after meticulous examination only. However, a recently discovered fragment of a 14th-century legend has directed attention to the issue again. In the present paper the author attempts to show that all that has emerged from the latter source can be substantiated from other sources as well, especially from Gerald's theological treatise entitled Deliberatio supra hymnum trium puerorum. The author regards it as probable that the part of this note attributed to Gerald is indeed a quotation by the saint. He believes this would support the scholarly hypothesis that Saint Gerald, as a bishop, wrote homilies on the incarnation of the Lord (De incarnatione Domini ), on the Virgin Mary (De beata Virgine ), and on the holidays of the Christian calendar (De diebus sollemnibus ) for his fellow priest to use in their missionary and preaching activities.

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