Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization and the reverent customs that

and the reverent customs that shape the soul toward a Catholic sense of time

and contemplative prayer

the establishment of Christian piety and divine law in private life must find its complement in the public

in dearest Truth

writing in the heart of industrial England

Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization and the reverent customs thatThis volume gathers three portraits from that vanished civilization: Alcuin of York, the Benedictine scholar who helped shape the mind of Christendom; Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to ascend the Chair of Peter; and the Elizabethan martyrs, whose blood consecrated a land already in ruin. All are men formed by a world in which the Faith governed law, language, and kingship. With selections from E. M. Wilmot Buxton, Richard Raby, and Dom Bede Camm,