ABSTRACT
In the course of his writing, Gregory appears to have discovered that his brief stories could be at least as effective as full-blown “praise”. Gregory's stories show that he tended to regard visible, human events in his own time, too, as manifestations of such divine images or patterns. Gregory seems to regard and experience all objects, gestures and representations— including his own mental images—of these spiritual image-patterns, as participating in the dynamic spiritual potential of their archetypes. Gregory's reports of cures occurring during liturgy after a miracle story has been read indicate that the sounded words of a miracle story also made the saint and the miraculous “deeds of power virtus” referred to actively present. Gregory believed not only in the objective existence of his images of divine patterns, but also in that of history as a divine plan involving mankind.
