ABSTRACT
The only known manuscript of the Homilia sacra is Copenhagen, Kongelike Bibliotek, GKS 143, which was written probably in southern France in the late ninth century. Elmenhorst said in his notes to the Homilia that he found it in 'a very ancient codex of Friedrich Lindenbrog', which is almost certainly the manuscript now in Copenhagen. The homily was addressed to married laymen and has a strongly pastoral character. Germain Morin in his edition of the works of Caesarius of Aries refuted the attribution of the homily to Caesarius proposed by Casimir Oudin and Ferdinand Kattenbusch. Both the homily and the Scarapsus, for instance, have 'ab origine mundi' in place of 'a constitutione mundi' and 'orate sine intermissione et in omnibus deo gratias agite'. The text of the homily treats briefly of the conduct of Christian life, from baptism to death, showing that those who are called and call themselves Christians should behave in a Christian manner.
