Author: Saint Francis (de Sales)
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780754604433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the inclination for the physical austerities of the great orders. It was for these sisters that Francis held conferences or 'familiar conversations' on religious topics at regular intervals. These conversations were not written out by Francis himself but were noted down and collected by the sisters. Pudentiana Deacon's translation of these transcripts gives the reader an idea of the personality of the speaker. De Sale comes across as a humane, commonsensical, practical man with an occasional sense of humour and a shrewd idea of the specific worries and temptations of his audience.
Pudentiana Deacon
Author: Saint Francis (de Sales)
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780754604433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the inclination for the physical austerities of the great orders. It was for these sisters that Francis held conferences or 'familiar conversations' on religious topics at regular intervals. These conversations were not written out by Francis himself but were noted down and collected by the sisters. Pudentiana Deacon's translation of these transcripts gives the reader an idea of the personality of the speaker. De Sale comes across as a humane, commonsensical, practical man with an occasional sense of humour and a shrewd idea of the specific worries and temptations of his audience.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780754604433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the inclination for the physical austerities of the great orders. It was for these sisters that Francis held conferences or 'familiar conversations' on religious topics at regular intervals. These conversations were not written out by Francis himself but were noted down and collected by the sisters. Pudentiana Deacon's translation of these transcripts gives the reader an idea of the personality of the speaker. De Sale comes across as a humane, commonsensical, practical man with an occasional sense of humour and a shrewd idea of the specific worries and temptations of his audience.
Gregorianum
Les vrays entretiens spirituels du bien-heureux François de Sales, evesque & prince de Geneve, instituteur, & fondateur de l'Ordre des Religieuses de la Visitation Saincte Marie
Author: François de Sales ((saint ;)
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 24
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Languages : fr
Pages : 24
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Les vrais entretiens spirituels de saint François de Sales, eve'que, et prince de Genève
Les vrays entretiens spirituels du bien-heureux Francois de Sales, evesque et prince de Geneve, instituteur et fondateur de l'ordre des religieuses de la visitation Saincte Marie
Author: saint François de Sales
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Les Vrays entretiens-spirituels du bien-heureux Francois de Sales, evesqve et prince de Geneve, Instituteur et fondateur de l'ordre des Religieuses de la Visitation Saincte Marie
Author: Franciscus Salesius (sanctus)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Pages : 0
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Esprits modernes
Author: Vlad Alexandrescu
Publisher: Vlad Alexandrescu
ISBN: 9736640094
Category : Europe
Languages : fr
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Vlad Alexandrescu
ISBN: 9736640094
Category : Europe
Languages : fr
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Pope's Body
Author: Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226034379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226034379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
Traicté de l'amour de Dieu du bien-heureux François de Sales Evesque et Prince de Geneve, Instituteur de l'Ordre de la Visitation Ste Marie. Derniere edition
Author: saint François de Sales
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 780
Book Description