{"id":83845,"date":"2026-06-22T07:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83845"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:55:51","slug":"2-lost-sermons-by-st-augustine-about-witch-of-endor-discovered-in-polish-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/2-lost-sermons-by-st-augustine-about-witch-of-endor-discovered-in-polish-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Lost Sermons By St. Augustine About Witch of Endor Discovered In Polish Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Christian Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Latin scholar in Germany recently discovered two lost sermons written by fourth-century church father Augustine of Hippo about the mysterious Witch of Endor from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleportal.com\/passage?search=1+Samuel+28&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 Samuel 28<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Christian Tornau, a Latin scholar at the University of W\u00fcrzburg, made the discovery after receiving a phone call in 2024 from an employee of the Bad Doberan Monastery Association in northeastern Germany, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-wuerzburg.de\/en\/news-and-events\/einblick\/single\/news\/two-new-sermons-augustine-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> from the university earlier this month.\u00a0 Tornau ultimately discovered that the medieval manuscript contained work by the influential philosopher and church father that had been lost.\u00a0&#8220;Two of the six sermons are previously undiscovered writings by Augustine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Christian Post: A Latin scholar in Germany recently discovered two lost sermons written by fourth-century church father Augustine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83847,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83845\/revisions\/83847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}