The Imitation of Christ Mauriac A Diary of a Country

A Diary of a Country Priest

By Ethel Cook Eliot

Volume II contains Dawson on “The Modern Dilemma”

loving father to the natives of the New World

” Beginning with Patrick’s boyhood and enslavement

The Imitation of Christ Mauriac A Diary of a CountryBy Thomas Kempis Translated by Ronald Knox & Michael Oakley The late fourteenth century witnessed the beginning of a new spiritual movement. This movement, as Church historian Henri Daniel Rops has described, was animated by a desire for a humble, simple life, soundly based upon discipline and temperate habits, and its rule of life has been enshrined in this timeless masterpiece: The Imitation of Christ. Spiritual inspiration and sustenance for such