The Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls

By Henri Daniel-Rops (NB: Product contains two individual volumes.) How to work the new leaven into the mass of the baptized—that was the task to which the Church devoted her energies from now onwards; her history during the great “classical” age was that of a persevering effort to accomplish this work of reanimating the very soul of the Christian people. (Henri Daniel-Rops) The Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls is the sixth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ grand History of the Church of Christ. Volume 1 includes the first three chapters of that work, studying the heroic St. Vincent de Paul, whose charitable institutions and foundations for priests and religious opened wide the century’s doors to Christ; the “age of spiritual grandeur” (1600–1660), with its extensive litany of saints and immense outpouring of spirituality, the flourishing of the missions and of religious orders for women dedicated to charitable and educational work, and the sustained creativity