Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes Ray

Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes RayThe well known Catholic convert and apologist Ronald Knox was highly esteemed for both his gift for writing and preaching. This volume combines both skills as it is a collection of his homilies on his favorite saints, men and women of history who were "inflamed with the love of Christ." In his always descriptive, profound and witty style, Knox shows how these heroes of history struggled with many of the same spiritual battles that modern believers

rich as it is in quotations from spiritual writers throughout the ages

Using a step by step approach

for the teacher

Covering a period from Lanciano

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who placed great emphasis on Apostolic succession

First published 1952

but her desire to become a Carmelite like Teresa was delayed for some time

but delivers stones

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and of the building as an icon

Robbed of supernatural implications