Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict
by Butcher, Carmen Acevedo
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1557254850
- ISBN 13
- 9781557254856
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About This Item
Brewster, Massachusetts, USA: Paraclete Press (MA), 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Codition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Handsome olive-green binding and jacket with yellow titles, spotless, tight, solid volume. Highlighted lines in yellow on 5 pages, else Fine. Saint Benedict was disturbed by the immorality of urban life in Rome around AD 500 so he left the city to become a hermit. Disciples gradually joined him and within a few decades the hermit became an abbot and his great Rule has guided Western monasticism ever since. This great medieval figure is known to us primarily through Gregory the Great's "Dialogues", written a century after Benedict's death. Now Carmen Acevedo Butcher explores all aspects of his unusual life, illuminating important episodes in the foundation of Western monasticism at the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages. 180 pages with Notes and reading List. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2006, Paraclete Press, Brewster, Massachusetts, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict
- Author
- Butcher, Carmen Acevedo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1557254850
- ISBN 13
- 9781557254856
- Publisher
- Paraclete Press (MA)
- Place of Publication
- Brewster, Massachusetts, USA
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- BENDICTINES GREGORY MONKS ITALY MONASTICISM RELIGION SPIRITUALITY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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