Google Books has got Charles Simeon’s Memoirs. Sweet.
Thank you Ben, for posting this link over at Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog, as part of the discussion on the Simeon chapter of Patron Saints for Postmoderns.
Google Books has got Charles Simeon’s Memoirs. Sweet.
Thank you Ben, for posting this link over at Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog, as part of the discussion on the Simeon chapter of Patron Saints for Postmoderns.
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We share with all the saints one Lord
Francis of Assisi--part of an altarpiece by Bartolomeo Vivarini, in the Brooklyn Museum
From a mid-15th-century Dutch prayerbook: Saint James the Great; Saint Joseph; Saint Ghislain, abbot of St Ghislain, near Mons; Saint Eligius; Saint Ermes (Hermes)
Gregory the Great and St. Mamertinus, from a 14th-century French translation of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Cologne Cathedral
The clocktower of the Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles church in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (Val-d'Oise), France
Masaccio, Crucifixion, 1426 (Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte); the blonde figure is Mary Magdalen
Door of Tewkesbury Abbey cloister
Thank you Dr. Armstrong for the marvelous book. I used so many digital sources for my M.A. thesis on the Revival of 1857-1858 at TEDS, which will be in its final form in December. My favorite being this one by Samuel Irenaeus Prime, with an excellent opening line:
http://books.google.com/books?id=QP8CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR11&dq=samuel+irenaeus+prime&lr=&as_brr=1&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_2#v=onepage&q=&f=false
God bless your writing and all you do,
Ben