Sources and Credits

Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.

The Seven Books on the Incarnation of the Lord

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

The Commonitory

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

The Life of Augustine

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

Letters of Leo the Great

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.

The Confession and the Letter to Coroticus

English translation by Newport J. D. White, from St. Patrick, his Writings and Life , by Newport J. D. White (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920; Translations of Christian Literature , Series V: Lives of the Celtic Saints); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1920 edition from the University of Toronto library at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. White’s introductions, the Latin hymn and sayings, Muirchu’s Life of Patrick, his notes and the index are also left out; the Scripture references that the book gives in the footnotes are removed. No original-language text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1920 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

Lives of Illustrious Men

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it yet, and no modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.