Documenta Catholica Omnia: Migne’s Patrologia, Digitized and Free
Between 1844 and 1866, a French priest named Jacques-Paul Migne did something no institution had managed: he printed, almost single-handedly and at ruinous speed, nearly the entire literary output of the Church Fathers. The Patrologia Latina ran to two hundred and seventeen volumes; the Patrologia Graeca to one hundred and sixty-one. Scholars have complained about…
