1861 F. R. de CHATEAUBRIAND. The Martyrs of the Early Church in Fine Leather Binding. Devotion Do I see the light

Do I see the light made so pure

and Alexander Hospitals and at Jefferson Barracks

May we not see that we are the object which the Holy Ghost had in view four thousand years ago

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1861 F. R. de CHATEAUBRIAND. The Martyrs of the Early Church in Fine Leather Binding. Devotion Do I see the lightA very attractive and rather rare edition in English of de Chateaubriand's history of the early martyrdoms of the Church, largely under the Roman Empire. Born in 1768, he was notable in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in France as being part of the intellectual elite, broadly thought of as one of the most persuasive writers of French Romanticism, and yet with a deep commitment to Christ and His church. Chateaubriand, Franois Ren Vicomte de; O.