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"Maximilian Kolbe-Franz Jagerstatter-Karl Leisner-Rupert Mayer - Victims of the Nazis" | Mary Craig, Bruce Kent, Bishop M. N. L. Couve de Murville and Paul Riesterer, SJ | $4.50 (booklet) | "Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan priest; Franz Jagerstatter a young Austrian farmer with a wife and three young daughters. Karl Leisner grew up in Germany in the years Hitler rose to power. Rupert Mayer had met Hitler in the political arena in 1919 and quickly realised that a German Catholic could never be a Nazi. Their lives were inextricably sucked into the tentacles of the evil men can do. Each refused to condone a wicked political system, so raising up the light of Christ crucified and risen in the total darkness. Pope John Paul ll invites us never to forget these modern martyrs of our own time." (from the backcover of the book with permission from Catholic Truth Society, London) 88 pages; published 1997 |
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"Meditations on the Stations of the Cross" | Cardinal John Henry Newman | $4.50 (booklet) | 32 pages; published 1999 (3rd ed.) |
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"My Spirit Rejoices - the diary of a Christian soul in an age of unbelief" | Elisabeth Leseur | $23.10 (paperback) | "The secret diary that changed her anti-religious husband...into a Catholic priest!It's the stuff of which miniseries are made, but it's also the true story of Elisabeth Leseur, an upper-class Frenchwoman, and her aggressively atheistic husband Felix. When Elisabeth died prematurely in 1914, Felix found the secret diary she had kept. Page after page revealed to him the beautiful life of Christian simplicity she had lived amidst the swirl of Parisian high society. |