Presents the stories of moral heroines and heroes, nonconformists often misunderstood by the institutional church, who always saw clearly the message of the Gospel in their lives.
She was one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.
St. Philip founded a religious congregation, the Oratory, and became the counselor of popes and cardinals, the trusted friend of beggars and outcasts. Like Christ, he was all things to all people, a mightly example of selfless love.
The author captures all the excitement and beauty of these two popular Saints' lives, and their centuries-long influence on the whole world through their radical living of the Gospel and founding of two religious orders.
It is ironic, says Michael Marshall, that while the world of Islam still recognizes Augustine, the great saint of late antiquity as Rumi Kabir - "the Great Christian," many Christians today know scarcely anything about him.
