The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
401–500
1 work
406
Latin
Jerome · c. 347 – 420
A Gallic priest had objected to vigils at martyrs' tombs, to lighting candles by daylight, to sending money to Jerusalem instead of to the local poor, and to the whole cult of relics. Jerome answers in a single night, and mostly by abuse.
501–600
1 work
c. 585–590
Latin
In Gloria Martyrum
Gregory of Tours · c. 538 – 594
A hundred and six short chapters on relics and what they did: oil that flowed, a candle that would not go out, thieves struck down, and a Jewish man who took an icon and was found out by the blood it wept.
1101–1200
2 works
c. 1119–1125
Latin
Guibert of Nogent · c. 1055–c. 1124
An attack on fraudulent relics and invented saints, prompted by a monastery claiming to own one of Christ's milk teeth, and asking how anyone could verify such a thing.
c. 1152–1164
Latin
Elisabeth of Schönau · c. 1129–1164
Visions received in ecstasy and dictated to her brother, including revelations about the company of Saint Ursula that helped authenticate a vast relic discovery at Cologne.
4 of 1774 works