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
Tag: Europe
The Westphalian Fallacy
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.”
– Psalm 126:1
Book Review: The Song of Roland Translated by Frederick Goldin
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
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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: 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 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
Prester John
“Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.”
– Psalms 145:2-3
Book Review of They Lived the Faith: Great Lay Leaders of Modern Times by Thomas P. Neill
“I see no reason why men of the world, who from inclination have applied themselves to serious studies, should not number themselves among the defenders of the most holy of causes.” – Joseph de Maistre
Book Download: History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages by Fr. Johannes Janssen (Vol. I)
The wonderful development of spiritual and intellectual life that characterized this period was only possible in view of the fact that all minds were still influenced by the Church doctrine of ‘salvation by good works.’ This teaching resulted, on one hand, in innumerable charitable bequests, in the founding of hospitals, asylums, and orphanages, as well as in the building of churches and cathedrals adorned with all that was most beautiful in art; while it also prompted the establishment of higher and lower education institutions, and the liberal endowment of them.