Patres: pisma Ojców Kościoła
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Patres is a reader of the writings of the Church Fathers and Christian classics. Here you'll find the Apostolic Fathers (Didache, Letter to Diognetus, letters of Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, and Polycarp), Justin's First Apology, works by Origen, Tertullian, Cyprian, Athanasius, Ambrose, and Augustine, the sermons of Leo the Great, and the teachings of Columbanus. All on your phone, even without internet.
NEW TRANSLATIONS
60 of the 64 texts are new translations from Greek and Latin, prepared for Patres by Claude (Opus), Anthropic's artificial intelligence model. Each text includes a translator's introduction, footnotes, and a translation reference. These translations have not yet been read by a specialist, so consider them a reading aid, not a scholarly edition.
The Church reads many of these works in excerpts in the Office of Readings. You can read them from start to finish here.
The remaining four texts come from Wikisource and are in the public domain: three books of St. Augustine's Confessions, The Thoughts of St. John Chrysostom, Bogurodzica, and two of Piotr Skarga's eight Sejm Sermons. Incomplete texts are marked in the library. IN THE APP
• 64 texts, over 1.5 million words
• Today's reading: a different passage for every day of the year
• Search the entire library, even without Polish characters
• Bookmarks with notes and paragraph highlights
• The app remembers the reading location in each chapter
• Translator's footnotes by tapping the number
• Three reading plans, day by day: Introduction to the Church Fathers, Our Father with Origen, Liturgy of the Early Christians
• Author profiles: biographies and meaning
• Light, dark, and sepia themes, two fonts, and adjustable text size
• Interface in Polish or English
NO ADVERTISEMENTS AND NO DATA COLLECTION
Patres does not require an account, does not display ads, and does not collect any data. Bookmarks, highlights, and progress stay on your phone. The app does not use the internet.
LICENSE
Our translations are available under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license: they may be copied, modified, and distributed with attribution, and modified versions may be released under the same license.
More texts will be added in updates.
NEW TRANSLATIONS
60 of the 64 texts are new translations from Greek and Latin, prepared for Patres by Claude (Opus), Anthropic's artificial intelligence model. Each text includes a translator's introduction, footnotes, and a translation reference. These translations have not yet been read by a specialist, so consider them a reading aid, not a scholarly edition.
The Church reads many of these works in excerpts in the Office of Readings. You can read them from start to finish here.
The remaining four texts come from Wikisource and are in the public domain: three books of St. Augustine's Confessions, The Thoughts of St. John Chrysostom, Bogurodzica, and two of Piotr Skarga's eight Sejm Sermons. Incomplete texts are marked in the library. IN THE APP
• 64 texts, over 1.5 million words
• Today's reading: a different passage for every day of the year
• Search the entire library, even without Polish characters
• Bookmarks with notes and paragraph highlights
• The app remembers the reading location in each chapter
• Translator's footnotes by tapping the number
• Three reading plans, day by day: Introduction to the Church Fathers, Our Father with Origen, Liturgy of the Early Christians
• Author profiles: biographies and meaning
• Light, dark, and sepia themes, two fonts, and adjustable text size
• Interface in Polish or English
NO ADVERTISEMENTS AND NO DATA COLLECTION
Patres does not require an account, does not display ads, and does not collect any data. Bookmarks, highlights, and progress stay on your phone. The app does not use the internet.
LICENSE
Our translations are available under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license: they may be copied, modified, and distributed with attribution, and modified versions may be released under the same license.
More texts will be added in updates.
The Church Fathers in new Polish translations. The reader works without internet.
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What’s new
• New texts: four collections of Origen's homilies, on Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers and Joshua
• Five new reading plans, eight in all
• Small fixes in the notes and in the details of the translations' sources
• The app now sends crash reports, so that we can fix bugs sooner
• Five new reading plans, eight in all
• Small fixes in the notes and in the details of the translations' sources
• The app now sends crash reports, so that we can fix bugs sooner
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Grzegorz Hul
grzegorz.hul@gmail.com
11 Listopada 82
41-218 Sosnowiec
Poland
