22 March 2008

Holy Saturday

Freshly added to my Reading List is a book kindly carried across the Atlantic for us by Will and Anna. 1917: Red Banners White Mantle by Warren Carroll is:

"A captivating account that narrates, month by month, the events of 1917. This is popular Catholic history at its finest. The drama of the Great War and the Russian Revolution are juxtaposed with the spiritual dimension of the Age: the diabolism of Rasputin, the Apparition of the Virgin at Fatima, the malignancy of Lenin, the saintly courage of (the now blessed) Charles of Austria. Few standard histories have ever given such a high degree of consideration to the supernatural and the Christian interpretation of history as 1917 does." (From the publisher's website - Christendom Press.)

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