The Celtic Saints
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Catholic Saints
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Publication Year
1956
Publisher
The Macmillan Company, United States
Pages
160
Description
A Celtic twilight of legend and tradition too often obscures our view of the Celtic saints, the way they lived, the way they prayed, the sort of men they were. This book is a return to the authentic sources, the Celtic liturgy and prayers, the Fathers of the Church, and the material relics surviving from the period, in an attempt to build up a picture of the early saints of Ireland and Scotland.
It is not an academic study of a world remote. The outlook of the Celtic saints was Catholic and of all time: their life and prayer, their integrated apostolic and contemplative activities, point an answer to the problems which face us to-day. But their outlook was also of their own time and civilisation, so that through them, we glimpse the Faith afresh, from unexpected angles, and with the glitter and sparkle of Celtic ornament.
The Author
Although born and brought up in the south of England, Daphne DC Pochin Mould is a graduate of a Scottish university. An Honours BSc in Geology at Edinburgh in 1943 led to research on the Highland rocks, a PhD in 1946, and to a love for the Scottish North which brought her to settle at Fort Augustus in Inverness-shire in the same year: to write about things Socttish and to reclaim the land of a derelict shooting lodge. Church of England by upringing, agnostic by conviction, she intended her writing to be a weapon forged against the Catholic Church. Beginning with a study of the Celtic saints in Scotland, she began to study the Church and, after a prolonged struggle, became a Catholic in 1950. In 1951, she left Scotland for the Irish Republic, where she now lives and has continued the study of the Celtic saints in Ireland. Her books include an account of her conversion, historical studies of the Celtic saints in Scotland and Ireland, a survey of the Irish pilgrimages, and the present work, which represents the culmination of her study and interpretation of the Celtic Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
It is not an academic study of a world remote. The outlook of the Celtic saints was Catholic and of all time: their life and prayer, their integrated apostolic and contemplative activities, point an answer to the problems which face us to-day. But their outlook was also of their own time and civilisation, so that through them, we glimpse the Faith afresh, from unexpected angles, and with the glitter and sparkle of Celtic ornament.
The Author
Although born and brought up in the south of England, Daphne DC Pochin Mould is a graduate of a Scottish university. An Honours BSc in Geology at Edinburgh in 1943 led to research on the Highland rocks, a PhD in 1946, and to a love for the Scottish North which brought her to settle at Fort Augustus in Inverness-shire in the same year: to write about things Socttish and to reclaim the land of a derelict shooting lodge. Church of England by upringing, agnostic by conviction, she intended her writing to be a weapon forged against the Catholic Church. Beginning with a study of the Celtic saints in Scotland, she began to study the Church and, after a prolonged struggle, became a Catholic in 1950. In 1951, she left Scotland for the Irish Republic, where she now lives and has continued the study of the Celtic saints in Ireland. Her books include an account of her conversion, historical studies of the Celtic saints in Scotland and Ireland, a survey of the Irish pilgrimages, and the present work, which represents the culmination of her study and interpretation of the Celtic Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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