The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 1 Art and Poetry )—The Church of the Classical

)—The Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls is a vividly detailed and unfailingly interesting account of an age in which the Faith was the celebrated norm and the human soul the universally accepted seat of all ambition

Its somber subject notwithstanding

is a watchdog and not a bloodhound

By George MacDonald

The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 1 Art and Poetry )—The Church of the ClassicalBy Henri Daniel Rops The Church in the Dark Ages is the second installment in Henri Daniel Rops monumental History of the Church of Christ. This volume includes the first five chapters of that work, studying St. Augustine of Hippo, whose genius governed Christendom for centuries; the Great Invasions of the Barbarians and their conversion under the great popes, Gregory and Leo; the sanctifying influence of such saints as John Chrysostom, Patrick, and