— A Classic — Includes Active Table of Contents — Includes Religious Illustrations
THIS little volume contains the translation from the Spanish of a few spiritual letters of Blessed John of Avila. The author is probably not much known to English readers; certainly he is not as well known as he deserves to be both for his own merits as a writer and because in his own time, the sixteenth century, and even beyond the limits of his own country, Spain, he was a man of great renown. He was recognised everywhere as a special servant of God, and as a a true director of all souls desiring to walk the higher paths of perfection, or of those who needed help and encouragement to serve God in the humbler walks of life. He was also a preacher of exceptional power. St. Francis of Sales in his Practice of the Love of God speaks of him as “the learned and saintly preacher of Andalusia,” St. Francis Borgia as “the Great Master,” and he was popularly known as the “Apostle of Andalusia” from the wonderful change which his preaching wrought in that district of Spain.
Aeterna Press
THIS little volume contains the translation from the Spanish of a few spiritual letters of Blessed John of Avila. The author is probably not much known to English readers; certainly he is not as well known as he deserves to be both for his own merits as a writer and because in his own time, the sixteenth century, and even beyond the limits of his own country, Spain, he was a man of great renown. He was recognised everywhere as a special servant of God, and as a a true director of all souls desiring to walk the higher paths of perfection, or of those who needed help and encouragement to serve God in the humbler walks of life. He was also a preacher of exceptional power. St. Francis of Sales in his Practice of the Love of God speaks of him as “the learned and saintly preacher of Andalusia,” St. Francis Borgia as “the Great Master,” and he was popularly known as the “Apostle of Andalusia” from the wonderful change which his preaching wrought in that district of Spain.
Aeterna Press
