2 lost sermons by St. Augustine about Witch of Endor in the Book of Samuel discovered in Polish monastery

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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 1 Samuel 28.Professor Christian Tornau, a Latin scholar at the University of Würzburg, 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 press release from the university earlier this month.The employee asked Tornau for his help in deciphering a 12th-century manuscript that contains six sermons by Augustine and is housed at a monastery in Pelplin, Poland.Tornau ultimately discovered that...
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