Book Review: The Age of Martyrs by Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti
“Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.”
– Psalm 96:12
Category: Bibliothekai
Book Review: The Song of Roland Translated by Fredric Goldin
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
Book Review: The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Ligouri
“When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.”
– John 19:26
Book Review: The Iliad of Homer Translated by W.C. Bryant
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
Book Review: The Confessions of Saint Augustine Translated by E.B. Pusey
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
Book Review: Parsifal by Richard Wagner as Retold by Oliver Huckel
“If thy heart be pure / The Grail will be to thee as food and drink!” – Gurnemanz
Book Review: History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17
Book Review of The Sinner’s Return to God: The Prodigal Son by Fr. Michael Müller, C.S.S.R.
“I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”
– Luke 15:18-19
Book Review of Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume I. Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens by Werner Jaeger
“But Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious. For passing by, and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the unknown God.”
– Acts 17:22-23
Book Review: The Miracles of St. Anthony Mary Claret by Fr. Juan Echevarria
“People give their heroes life-blood, language, character, geniality, impulse; but heroes, on the other hand, bestow immortal history upon their people.”
– Fr. Juan Echevarria