St Anthony of Padua
By Isadore Obrien.
Description
When St. Francis of Assisi, in the thirteenth century, feared the effect, upon his brethren and other men, of the self-assured, oriented and not very profound secular knowledge of the day, hr chose St. Anthony to be the first teacher of his Order. Preaching to eager thousands, St. Anthony reconciled the simplicities of St. Francis with sound learning, interpreting the Gospel with burning eloquence and unsurpassed clarity, so that the untutored appreciated his as a good, plain man of God and the literati understood him as an intellectual, modern-minded saint. We of the twentieth century, oft...
ISBN(s)
081980472X, 9780819804723
