Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization

Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic CivilizationThis volume gathers three portraits from that vanished civilization: Alcuin of York, the Benedictine scholar who helped shape the mind of Christendom; Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to ascend the Chair of Peter; and the Elizabethan martyrs, whose blood consecrated a land already in ruin. All are men formed by a world in which the Faith governed law, language, and kingship. With selections from E. M. Wilmot Buxton, Richard Raby, and Dom Bede Camm,

practical wisdom

The author refers to him as “Father” or “Blessed

these verses are the cries of a heart that knew both desolation and ecstasy

concocting strong delusions which Christians are not to give heed to

and before long arrived in France

Augustine had to pay a visit on the Pope's behalf to Protasius

and kingship

the hammer of heresy

A monk preserving classical texts

who to apostolic fervour added a profound love of music

when the institutions that had governed the Mediterranean world for centuries were disintegrating under barbarian invasion and internal corruption

Isaac Jogues: Life and Letters tells the gripping true story of a French missionary who faced torture