gregory the great

Letters of the ninth year, largely to Sardinia, Ravenna, and the Frankish court.

Letters of the tenth year, including correspondence with Alexandria, Naples, and Carthage.

Letters of the eleventh year, including those sent to Augustine and Queen Bertha in England.

Letters of the twelfth year, chiefly to the bishops of Africa and to Alexandria.

The final letters, including those to Sardinia, Sicily, and Queen Theodelinda of the Lombards.

Letters of the thirteenth year, to Rome, to Gaul, and to the Frankish rulers.

The great register of Gregory's letters, showing a bishop governing, comforting, and correcting across the known world.

The classic manual of pastoral care: who should lead, how they should live, and how to teach each kind of hearer.

Gregory's life of Benedict, the second book of his Dialogues and our chief account of the great monastic founder.

Bishop of Rome, whose Pastoral Rule set the standard for the care of souls and whose letters steadied a changing world.