Download or read book The Autobiography of St Anthony Mary Claret written by St. Anthony Mary Claret and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bares the soul of a saint and reveals the methods which were so successful for him in converting others. From age 5 he was haunted by the thought of the souls about to fall into Hell. This insight fueled his powerful drive to save as many souls as he could.
Download or read book IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY written by St. John Drelincourt Seymour and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Avila of Saint Teresa written by Jodi Bilinkoff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avila of Saint Teresa provides both a fascinating account of social and religious change in one important Castilian city and a historical analysis of the life and work of the religious mystic Saint Teresa of Jesus. Jodi Bilinkoff's rich socioeconomic history of sixteenth-century Avila illuminates the conditions that helped to shape the religious reforms for which the city's most famous citizen is celebrated. Bilinkoff takes as her subject the period during which Avila became a center of intense religious activity and the home of a number of influential mystics and religious reformers. During this time, she notes, urban expansion and increased economic opportunity fostered the social and political aspirations of a new "middle class" of merchants, professionals, and minor clerics. This group supported the creation of religious institutions that fostered such values as individual spiritual revitalization, religious poverty, and apostolic service to the urban community. According to Bilinkoff, these reform movements provided an alternative to the traditional, dynastic style of spirituality expressed by the ruling elite, and profoundly influenced Saint Teresa in her renewal of Carmelite monastic life. A focal point of the book is the controversy surrounding Teresa's foundation of a new convent in August 1562. Seeking to discover why people in Avila strenuously opposed this ostensibly innocent act and to reveal what distinguished Teresa's convent from the many others in the city, Bilinkoff offers a detailed examination of the social meaning of religious institutions in Avila. Historians of early modern Europe, especially those concerned with the history of religious culture, urban history, and women's history, specialists in religious studies, and other readers interested in the life of Saint Teresa or in the history of Catholicism will welcome The Avila of Saint Teresa.
Download or read book The Book of Her Life written by Teresa of Avila and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Book of Her Life" is the spiritual autobiography of a Counter Reformation mystic and monastic reformer of sixteenth century Spain. Introduction by Jodi Bilinkoff.
Download or read book God in La Mancha written by Sara T. Nalle and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference's Bainton Book Prize Even as the Protestant Reformation became a permanent feature of European culture, a Catholic reformation was under way in Spain. In this acclaimed social history of the Spanish Counter-Reformation, Sara Nalle uses the records of local religious courts, parishes, and notarial archives to explore in striking detail how the people and clergy of Cuenca learned to conform to the new standards of modern Catholicism.
Download or read book The Spirit of the Counter Reformation written by H. Outram Evennett and published by . This book was released on 1991-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outram Evennett was a university lecturer in history at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. This book, based on his Birkbeck Lectures of 1951, represents some twenty years' work on the sources of the Counter-Reformation. Evennett did not live to complete his task, but he has provided a remarkable synthesis of the vast European literature on this subject. His method was to isolate the special and positive characteristics of the Counter-Reformation and to account for them in relation to the environment in which they developed. This approach is highly original; it sees in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation an attempt not to check but to extend and come to terms with the more individualistic and modern environment in which the Catholic Church found itself. The Jesuits are treated as agents of this change. Dr John Bossy has edited these lectures for publication and added a Postscript, analysing some of the problems raised in the years since the lectures were delivered. Professor David Knowles pays tribute to Evennett's memory in a Foreword.
Download or read book The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus written by Jesuits and published by Inst of Jesuit Sources. This book was released on 1970 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first part is Ganss' extensive introduction, then follows the documents translated from the official texts with footnotes by Ganss, and finally "Reference Matter", which is supplementary material, bibliography and index. This is the entire corpus of St. Ignatius' Constitution, recognized as a classic both of spiritual doctrine and of the law of religious institutes. It greatly influenced many founders of subsequent religious congregations"--
Download or read book Lost Shores Forgotten Peoples written by Lawrence H. Feldman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long after the Aztecs and the Incas had become a fading memory, a Maya civilization still thrived in the interior of Central America. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples is the first collection and translation of important seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great "Ocean Sea" and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. In these narratives--primary documents written by missionaries and conquistadors--vivid details of these little known Mayan cultures are revealed, answering how and why lowlanders were able to evade Spanish conquest while similar civilizations could not. Fascinating tales of the journey from Europe are included, involving unknown islands, lost pilots, life aboard a galleon fleet, political intrigue, cannibals, and breathtaking natural beauty. In short, these forgotten manuscripts--translations of the papers of the past--provide an unforgettable look at an understudied chapter in the age of exploration. Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples will appeal to archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians interested in Central America, the Maya, and the Spanish Conquest.
Download or read book The Poisoned Water written by Fernando Benítez and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation makes available to English-speaking readers a powerful modern Mexican novel, first published in 1961. Fernando Benítez, well-known Mexican author, journalist, and winner of Mexico's 1968 best-book award, exploits a true but little-known incident by building it into a tightly structured, tense, and tragic novel of social protest. The incident on which the novel is based is a bloody rebellion against the village feudal master touched off by joking comment on the "poisoning" of the water as one of Don Ulises's men is pushed into the plaza fountain. Feeding on itself, the rumor spreads that the "boss" has poisoned the local spring, and rebellion follows, with its violent and unforeseen consequences. The result is a frightening look at one of Mexico's major social problems and glaring ironies--that over fifty years after a revolution fought by the peasant and for the peasant, most rural groups are still living below the national economic standard.
Download or read book A Tumpline Economy written by Lawrence H. Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnic Humor Around the World written by Christie Davies and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a scholarly study of various societies' hostile humor. This book takes a serious look at humor, drawing on the work of psychologists, folklorists, and philosophers, but also is intended for those who are curious as to why we laugh at ethnic jokes.
Download or read book Too Good to Be True The Colossal Book of Urban Legends written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-10-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
Download or read book Vida del padre maestro Juan de vila written by Luis de Granada and published by Linkgua. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta Vida del padre maestro Juan de Ávila escrita por fray Luis de Granada estuvo muy influido por el místico Juan de Ávila, cuya vida aquí se recoge, y ello levantó las sospechas de la Inquisición. Fragmento de la obra Aquel solícito padre de familias que a todas las horas del día anda cogiendo obreros para cultivar su viña, jamás deja pasar edad alguna que no despierte algunos muy señalados obreros, que con su trabajo e industria ayuden a esta labor. Entre los cuales fue Él servido de llamar este nuevo obrero, cuya vida comenzamos a escribir para gloria del mismo padre de las familias y de este obrero que Él escogió, suplicando al mismo padre que, pues este siervo suyo; pues es justo que sea glorificado en la tierra el que tanto procuró todo el tiempo que vivió glorificar al que reina en el cielo. Y aunque va poco en saber el origen de los padres que los siervos de Dios tuvieron en la tierra, pues tienen a Dios por padre en el cielo, todavía se suele esto escribir para gloria de la tierra que este fruto produjo, y de los padres que lo engendraron. Fue, pues, este siervo de Dios natural de Almodóvar del Campo, que es en el arzobispado de Toledo. Sus padres eran de los más honrados y ricos de este lugar y, lo que más es, temerosos de Dios; porque tales habían de ser los que tal planta habían de producir; y no tuvieron más que solo este hijo. Siendo él mozo de edad de catorce años, le envió su padre a Salamanca a estudiar Leyes, y poco tiempo después de haberlas comenzado le hizo Nuestro Señor merced de llamarle con un muy particular llamamiento. Y, dejado el estudio de las Leyes, volvió a casa de sus padres; y como persona ya tocada de Dios, les pidió que le dejasen estar en un aposento apartado de la casa, y así se hizo, porque era extraño el amor que le tenían. En este aposento tenía una celda muy pequeña y muy pobre, donde comenzó a hacer penitencia y vida muy áspera. Su cama era sobre unos sarmientos, y la comida era de mucha penitencia, añadiendo a esto cilicio y disciplinas. Los padres sentían esto tiernamente; mas no le contradecían, considerando, como temerosos de Dios, las mercedes que en esto les hacía. Perseveró en este modo de vida casi tres años. Confesábase muy a menudo, y su devoción comenzó por el Santísimo Sacramento, y así estaba muchas horas delante de él; y de ver esto, y la reverencia con que comulgaba, fueron muy edificados así los clérigos como la gente del lugar. Pasando por allí un religioso de la Orden de San Francisco, y maravillado de tanta virtud en tal edad, aconsejó a él y a sus padres que lo enviasen a estudiar a Alcalá, porque con sus letras pudiese servir mejor a Nuestro Señor en su Iglesia y así se hizo.
Download or read book The Origin and Deeds of the Goths written by Jordanes and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Charles C. Mierow. De origine actibusque Getarum, or the Getica, is a summary of the now lost account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people. It tells of the great battles between the Goths and Romans, of the First Great Race War against Europe waged by the Huns under Attila, the Gothic involvement in the great sacking of Rome-and much, much more. Jordanes' work is the single most important source on the origin and migration of the Goths, Ostrogoths and Visigoths. Starting with a fictionalized account of Gothic origins and travels, the Getica then deals with the very real story of the first meeting between Roman and Gothic forces on the eastern borders of the Empire in the present-day north Balkans. It tells of the initial clashes between Roman and Goth, and of how they were eventually forced to become allies against the invasion of Europe by the Asiatic hordes under Attila the Hun. Once that invasion was warded off, the story continues with the adventures of the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, Gaul, Spain, the last Gothic rulers of the Western Roman Empire, their part in the final fall of Rome and their descendant's role in the Eastern Roman Empire. The Getica is, even after 1,500 years, still a riveting read and brimming with adventure, despair, heroism and incredible deeds which helped shape Europe, and a vital source for early Gothic, Slavic, Roman and Hunnish history. This version has been completely reset and follows the identical margin notes, introduction and literary overview of Charles C. Mierow's Princeton University edition. About the author: Jordanes (sixth century AD) was a Goth whose immediate family came from Moesia, or modern northern Bulgaria, when it was on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. Little else is known about his life or death except that he was a high-level notarius, or civil servant who turned to history writing as a hobby after being converted to Christianity.
Download or read book Obras del Padre Maestro Iuan de Auila written by Juan de Ávila (Santo) and published by . This book was released on 1588 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Obras del Padre Maestro Iuan de Auila written by Juan de Ávila (Santo) and published by . This book was released on 1588 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vida del beato Juan de Avila ap stol de Andaluc a written by Luiz Munoz and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
