Basil Moreau: Essential Writings. An Introduction to the Life and Thought of the Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross

Basil Moreau; Kevin Grove (Editor); Andrew Gawrych (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0870612883 / ISBN 13: 9780870612886

Published by Christian Classics, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2014

About this Item

Foreword by John C. Cavadini. Mildly ex-library, with no library markings to dust-jacket or covers of book. Typical internal library treatments. Light wear to dust-jacket, including minor creases in a few places at extremities and a little bit of a wavy appearance from when a protective cover had been in place. Several minor dings to lower fore-edges of pages and a tiny wear spot to upper part of first leaf. Text clean. Binding sound. Overall, a good, clean, sound copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basil Moreau: Essential Writings. An Introduction to the Life and Thought of the Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross
• Publisher: Christian Classics, Notre Dame, Indiana
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870612883
• ISBN 13: 9780870612886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Spirituality/Mysticism
  • Religious Life

About this title

Synopsis

This definitive introduction to the life and vision of Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C., is the first book to gather together the essential spiritual, pastoral, and educational writings of the nineteenth-century French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross, which is the religious order that founded the University of Notre Dame in 1842.

About the Author

Blessed Basil Moreau (February 11, 1799--January 20, 1873) was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1837. The congregation's name was taken from the small French town, Sainte-Croix, in which the congregation was founded. Moreau was beatified on September 15, 2007, in Le Mans, France.

Rev. Kevin Grove, C.S.C., received a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and was ordained a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 2010. Fr. Grove is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge. He is the coeditor of The Cross, Our Only Hope and You Have Redeemed the World.

Rev. Andrew Gawrych, C.S.C., received a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2007 and was ordained a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 2008. As a priest, he has worked both in parish and vocations ministry. He is the editor or coeditor of several Holy Cross books, including The Cross, Our Only Hope; The Gift of Hope; The Gift of the Cross; and You Have Redeemed the World.