Translated from the French by Eugene Laplante, A. Anthologie Alzonienne. Researching Family Roots p. In the Company of Books p. What to Choose? The Future of a Rich Young Man p. The Thrust of a Priestly Vocation p. A Founder Set Aside, Fr. Combalot p.
The Desire to Found a Congregation p. The Adventure of a Prep School p. A Moving Conversion, Newman p. The Election of Pius IX p. Planning Notes for the Constitutions p. A Palace Revolution in Paris p. A Voice at the Council of Avignon p. Francis de Sales and His Influence p. The Background of the Gaume Controversy p. The Trial of Illness p. Rome Grants the Assumption a Decree of Praise p.
The Assumption in Bordeaux p. Women of Holiness, Women of the Church p. Industrialization of the Gard Department p. An Adventure: Constantinople p. Miss Marie Correnson p.
A Torrent of Vocations for the Oblates p. At the General Chapter of p. France on the Verge of a Restoration of the Monarchy p. By the Fireplace at Lavagnac p. Thirty-third Meditation: Study p. The Threat of a Dangerous Anticlerical Republicanism p. I, was published in and has already been translated [1] into Portuguese , Spanish , and English It has become indispensable in introducing laypeople and young people to the person and thought of Fr. Few readers will have the time to skim through the eighteen volumes of the critical edition of the correspondence of Fr.
That is why it was a stroke of inspiration to choose fifty of his most important letters and thus put this imposing mass of writings within the reach of a much larger group of readers and make it possible to discover the human and spiritual depths of this figure of the 19 th century Church whose personal and intimate side can get lost in his more public or didactic writings.
