20 St. Maximus of Turin
Taken from Great Christian Thinkers
author: Pope Benedict XVI
contributor: SPCK - Pope Benedict XVI
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St. Maximus of Turin
Between the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth, another Father of the Church made a great contribution to the spread and consolidation of Christianity in northern Italy: St. Maximus, whom we come across in 398— a year after St. Ambrose’s death— as bishop of Turin. Very little is known about him; in compensation, we have inherited a collection of about ninety of his sermons…
Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI
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