Funeral Orations: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Funeral Orations, credited to Gregory of Nazianzus, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Funeral Orations by Gregory of Nazianzus. (Translated by C. G. Browne; James Edward Swallow.) Read in English by A LibriVox Volunteer Gregory the Theologian, also known as Gregory Nazianzen (which name also refers to his father,) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age. Along with the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers. Gregory is a saint in both Eastern and Western Christianity. In the Roman Catholic Church he is numbered among the Doctors of the Church; in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches he is revered as one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, along with Basil the Great and John Chrysostom. He is also one of only three men in the life of the Orthodox Church who have been officially designated "Theologian" by epithet, the other two being St. John the Theologian (the Evangelist), and St. Symeon the New Theologian. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Funeral Orations
• Author credits: Gregory of Nazianzus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 6:50:53

Catalogue topics

• funeral orations
• saint basil
• saint gregory
• saint cæsarius
• saint gorgonia
• nazianzen

Track guide

1. 01 - Oration VII, on St Caesarius, the Saint's brother — 54:03
2. 02 - Oration VIII, on St Gorgonia, the Saint's sister — 42:05
3. 03 - Oration XVIII, on St Gregory Nazianzen, the Saint's father — 44:10
4. 04 - Oration XVIII continued — 42:43
5. 05 - Oration XXI, on St Athanasius the Great — 34:17
6. 06 - Oration XXI continued — 32:25
7. 07 - Oration XLIII, on St Basil the Great — 40:16
8. 08 - Oration XLIII continued (2) — 40:21
9. 09 - Oration XLIII continued (3) — 43:09
10. 10 - Oration XLIII continued (4) — 37:24

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