By Francis de Sales,Henry B. Mackey
One of the main awesome and well-documented occasions in Catholic historical past begun whilst a tender priest, St. Francis de revenues, volunteered to re-evangelize the Calvinists of the Chablais.
Finding his preaching forcefully rejected, St. Francis de revenues shrewdly switched strategies and commenced a written apologetics crusade, posting pamphlets on partitions and slipping them underneath doorways lower than the canopy of night.
His safety of the religion was once so transparent and thorough that on the finish of 4 years approximately the complete inhabitants of 72,000 had back to the Catholic Faith!
These strong little tracts are as appropriate at the present time as they have been within the past due 1500s. St. Francis de revenues attracts help from Scripture, the Fathers and medical professionals of the Church to handle questions nonetheless usually posed via sleek Protestants.
Revered as probably the most cogent arguments opposed to Protestantism ever penned; they current a safeguard of the Catholic religion that hasn't ever been equaled.
Now with attractive new disguise, more uncomplicated to learn dimension, up-to-date typesetting, and the unique content material. 320 pps PB
St. Francis de revenues was once probably the most powerful Catholic apologists and evangelists of the earlier 5 centuries. surely, he's the simplest apologist to Protestant Calvinists who has ever lived.
Steve wooden (Family lifestyles heart International)
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