Encyclique De Notre Saint P Re Le Pape Pie Ix Sur L Immacul E Conception De La Tr S Sainte Vierge Marie M Re De Dieu Et Instruction Pastorale De Monseigneur L Archev Que De Reims Sur Le M Me Sujet

Encyclique de Notre Saint Père le Pape Pie IX, sur l'Immaculée Conception de la Très-Sainte Vierge Marie, mère de Dieu, et Instruction pastorale de Monseigneur l'Archevêque de Reims, sur le même sujet

The Plot Against the Church

This book, The Plot Against the Church, was published prior to the beginning of the Second Vatican Council as a warning of what the dark powers had in store for the Church. The high ranking clerics, writing as Maurice Pinay, stated that the ultimate purpose of the Council was to remove the crime of Deicide from the Jews and assign it instead to the Romans. It is a scholarly work, worthy of consideration of all who would understand Christian history and Christian defense against forces seeking to destroy the Church and Faith. While written in 1962, Rabbi Louis Israel Newman wrote much the same from the Jewish side in his 1925 work Jewish Influence in Christian Reform Movements, which is quoted extensively in The Plot.

Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt

This volume deals with the origins and rise of Christian pilgrimage cults in late antique Egypt. Part One covers the major theoretical issues in the study of Coptic pilgrimage, such as sacred landscape and shrines' catchment areas, while Part Two examines native Egyptian and Egyptian Jewish pilgrimage practices. Part Three investigates six major shrines, from Philae's diverse non-Christian devotees to the great pilgrim center of Abu Mina and a Thecla shrine on its route. Part Four looks at such diverse pilgrims' rites as oracles, chant, and stational liturgy, while Part Five brings in Athanasius's and an anonymous hagiographer's perspectives on pilgrimage in Egypt. The volume includes illustrations of the Abu Mina site, pilgrims' ampules from the Thecla shrine, as well as several maps.