The Man Nearest to Christ Edgar Allison Peers In days long past

In days long past

Paperback: 250pp

outstanding among which is the Saracinesca tetraology: Saracinesca

Mauriac leads the reader through Christ’s early years

The Man Nearest to Christ Edgar Allison Peers In days long pastBy Francis L. Filas, S. J. Saint Joseph, the faithful and prudent servant whom the Lord has set over His household, was declared patron of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1870. Yet devotion to the foster father of Jesus Christ has been a feature of the Christian life since the earliest days of the Church. In The Man Nearest to Christ, Francis L. Filas expertly surveys the nature and historic development of devotion to Saint Joseph, faithfully