A SAINT'S LIFE
THE GOLDEN THREAD, by Louis de Wohl; Victor Gollancz...English price, 12/6. ‘THIS is a life of St. Ignatius Loyola in the form of an historical novel. For those who have read the earlier books of the author based on the lives of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of. Hippo; it suffices to say that this is as competent and instructive .as the others, Inigo de Loyola was cadet of a noble house in the Basque provinces of Spain. Having distinguished himself by gallant conduct in the siege of Pamplona, he seemed destined for a military career. But in convalescing from a severe wound he spent time in reading and meditation, with the result that he became a preacher, gathered companions around -him, survived attacks On his orthodoxy, and founded the Order of Jesus, a body which proved to be the greatest single force in the Counter-Reformation. Ardour, self-dis-cipline and the pursuit of exact knowledge were the keynotes of his career, and Louis de Wohl loses nothing that is essential in this portraval of the life
of the Saint.
F. J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 13
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185A SAINT'S LIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 13
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