The Sabbath of History

2000 First English Language Edition of the 1998 First International Italian original. A fine, bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws in a Mylar Protective Cover. "Two voices, different and distant from each other, interrogate our times. At the Initiative of the Italian office of The William G. Congdon Foundation, these two voices have been brought together in this book, in an "involuntary encounter." The two voices, are, surprisingly that of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and of the American painter William Congdon." 149 pages. "this book unites Ratzinger's written text on Holy Week and the paintings by Congdon which evoke man's great struggle to seek a meaningful time, a history transfigured." ILLUSTRATED in Congdon's color paintings with accompanying descriptive captions. .