the establishment of Christian piety and divine law in private life must find its complement in the public
and the reverent customs that shape the soul toward a Catholic sense of time
Had they imagined when they gave in their names that their mission was to be free from risk and peril
and a practical devotional for traditional Catholic spiritual reading
and his resolute vision for papal authority
Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization the establishment of Christian pietyThis 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,