One Hundred Saints - Hardcover

Butler, Alban

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821220098 ISBN 13: 9780821220092

Verlag: Bulfinch, 1994

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Reseña del editor:

In street and city names, churches and other, more personal associations, the saints are always with us. This text presents saints in all their splendour - in both word and image. The selection reflects contemporary interest and patronage. All the apostles are featured, as are the Church Fathers. Also included are saints whose lives and works provide fascinating glimpses into ther holy lives and the traditions and beliefs that have grown because of them. We see Bernini's sculptural representations of Teresa of Avila in ecstasy; Debastian's martyrdom as pictured by Titian; and El Greco's penetrating rendering of St. Martin and the Beggar.

Biografía del autor:

Alban Butler's Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other Principal Saints was published between 1756 and 1759. Since then the multi-volume work has undergone numerous revisions and updatings, the most recent being in 1990. Since this British cleric was somewhat reticent about promulgating many of the legends and stories commonly attributed to saints today, we have drawn on a more colorful, 20th-century revision for One Hundred Saints.

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• Verlag: Bulfinch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0821220098
• ISBN 13: 9780821220092
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288