The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism History of the Missions
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Catholic Church - Missions
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Publication Year
1961
Publisher
Volume
99
Pages
191
Description
This is the story of those courageous men and women whose tenacity and faith allowed them to bring "the good news" to every part of the globe, on the perilous journeys that began with the travels of St. Paul and the apostles. This volume is the history of the most exciting and dangerous Church vocation over the last two thousand years.
It was the missionaries who spread the word of Christ to the ends of the Roman Empire and finally converted the Emperors themselves. The author carries their story through the evangelization of northern and western Europe as the Faith spread in the wake of Charlemagne's empire. He then goes on to the story of the conversion of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
An exciting portion of this volume is devoted to the heroic efforts of the missionaries who converted the natives in the Western Hemisphere, fighting both the pagan hostility of the indigenous population and the unchriatian motives of the European invaders. That they succeeded at all was a miracle. The later part of the book is concerned with the efforts in Africa and the Far East, and the incredible obstacles of tremendous distances and, in Africa, the almost unlivable environment.
Any book on this subject could not fail to be exciting; this book has the added grace of being well written.
Bernard de Vaulx, who was born in France, is principally a historian, though he has written a few novels. He is the author of Monsieur de Sougy avant le Phylloxera (1935), Joseph de Maistre (1940), Journal de Francois Suleau (1946), Charlotte, Femme Souple (1947), Deux Figure du Tiers Ordre (1948), L'echeance de 1852 ou la Liquidation de 1848 (1948), Histoire des Missions Catholiques Francaises (1951), Le Plus Beaux Texts sur les Missions (1954), Madame Tiquet Criminelle Repentie (1955), Les Eglises de Couleur (1957), and En Afrique (1960).
Reginald F Trevett translated History of the Missions from the French.
This is Volume 99 under Section IX: The Church and the Modern World.
Taken from the inside flaps.
It was the missionaries who spread the word of Christ to the ends of the Roman Empire and finally converted the Emperors themselves. The author carries their story through the evangelization of northern and western Europe as the Faith spread in the wake of Charlemagne's empire. He then goes on to the story of the conversion of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
An exciting portion of this volume is devoted to the heroic efforts of the missionaries who converted the natives in the Western Hemisphere, fighting both the pagan hostility of the indigenous population and the unchriatian motives of the European invaders. That they succeeded at all was a miracle. The later part of the book is concerned with the efforts in Africa and the Far East, and the incredible obstacles of tremendous distances and, in Africa, the almost unlivable environment.
Any book on this subject could not fail to be exciting; this book has the added grace of being well written.
Bernard de Vaulx, who was born in France, is principally a historian, though he has written a few novels. He is the author of Monsieur de Sougy avant le Phylloxera (1935), Joseph de Maistre (1940), Journal de Francois Suleau (1946), Charlotte, Femme Souple (1947), Deux Figure du Tiers Ordre (1948), L'echeance de 1852 ou la Liquidation de 1848 (1948), Histoire des Missions Catholiques Francaises (1951), Le Plus Beaux Texts sur les Missions (1954), Madame Tiquet Criminelle Repentie (1955), Les Eglises de Couleur (1957), and En Afrique (1960).
Reginald F Trevett translated History of the Missions from the French.
This is Volume 99 under Section IX: The Church and the Modern World.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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