Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform

by Alison Forrestal

Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform offers a major re-assessment of the thought and activities of the most famous figure of the seventeenth-century French Catholic Reformation, Vincent de Paul. Confronting traditional explanations for de Paul's prominence in the devot reform movement that emerged in the wake of the Wars of Religion, the volume explores how he turned a personal vocational desire to evangelize the rural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198785763
• ISBN13: 9780198785767
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"