The Rose Garden: Sermons on the monastic virtues by Johann Herolt OP (~1390-1468)

Johann Herolt OP (~1390-1468), a Dominican friar of Nürnberg, was the most prolific sermonist of fifteenth century Europe, producing a huge and widely used library of sermon materials under the penname ‘Discipulus’. For nearly forty years, Johann Herolt was teacher, preacher, confessor, administrator, and advocate of the sisters of St Katharine’s, the Dominican sister house. While he was vicar of St Katharine’s in 1436, he preached to the sisters a series of Advent, Christmas, and New Year ...