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VINCENT DE PAUL, THE TRAILBLAZER opens a bright window into the
turbulent world of a renowned saint who lived during a time of
great unrest. Bernard Pujo details how politics, war, and Vincent's
own charismatic personality served as essential elements in his
construction of a vast and lasting web of charitable works. Pujo
introduces readers not only to the fascinating life of Vincent, but
also to the cultural, political, social, ecclesiastical, and
economic life of France during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. Pujo's rich portrait reveals that Vincent played an
active and prominent part in shaping this period of French history.
In his quest to minister to the needs of the poor, Vincent
counseled and challenged some of the key figures in French
politics. Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer, describes Vincent's
childhood, his education, his life as a young priest, his skills as
an organizer and manager, and his commitment to serving the
physical and spiritual needs of the poor. This authoritative
biography is lively enough to interest general readers and detailed
enough to appeal to scholars of French and church history.
Welcome to an America you've never seen. Where anyone can drop by
the White House and visit the President between 10 a.m. and noon;
where cowcatchers are bloodied daily on train tracks between New
York and Boston; where spent bullets are strewn across Civil War
battlefields, and Indians still roam Yosemite Valley; where pigs
rut in the sand-and-clay streets of Washington, DC., and the
weather-bleached skeletons of oxen and horses line the old mail
roads across the West. For three hot summer months in 1869, Ernst
Mendelssohn-Barthody, the nephew of famed composer Felix
Mendelssohn, traveled by train across the United States accompanied
by his older cousin. His letters back home to Prussia offer
fascinating glimpses of a young, rapidly growing America.
Unceasingly annoyed at the Americans' tendency to spit all the
time, the Prussian aristocrats seemingly visited everyone and
everywhere: meeting President Grant and Brigham Young; touring
Niagara Falls, Mammoth Cave, the Redwoods, and Yosemite; taking in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Omaha, San Francisco, and
the still war-ravaged city of Richmond; and crossing the continent
by rail just two months after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
railroads had been joined at Promontory, Utah. Full of marvelous
tales and insightful observations, Ernst Mendelssohn-Barthody's
letters are a revealing window to a long-ago America.
Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer opens a bright window into the
turbulent world of a renowned saint who lived during a time of
great unrest. Bernard Pujo details how politics, war, and Vincent's
own charismatic personality served as essential elements in his
construction of a vast and lasting web of charitable works. Pujo
introduces readers not only to the fascinating life of Vincent de
Paul (1581-1660), but also to the cultural, political, social,
ecclesiastical, and economic life of France during the late
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Pujo's rich portrait reveals
that Vincent played an active and prominent part in shaping this
period of French history. In his quest to minister to the needs of
the poor, Vincent counseled and challenged some of the key figures
in French politics. Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer describes
Vincent's childhood, his education, his life as a young priest, his
skills as an organizer and manager, and his commitment to serving
the physical and spiritual needs of the poor. This authoritative
biography is lively enough to interest general readers and detailed
enough to appeal to scholars of French and church history.
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