A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor Philip Neri and Charles Borromeo

Philip Neri and Charles Borromeo

Marion Crawford | Introduction by Stephen Schmalhofer

it is said

as “a man in whom the decision for Christ and genuine worldly greatness lay in bitter struggle

and the Economy of Salvation in Luke’s Gospel (Mohr Siebeck)

A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor Philip Neri and Charles BorromeoBy Ronald Knox As Ronald Knox was preparing to enter the Catholic Church, he took with him, as a spiritual reading traveling companion, Virgils Aeneid. The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Romethe Eternal City of Christendom. Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame, as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, A Spiritual Aeneid is Knoxs account of his