The Life of Francis Libermann

This is the classic English lire or Ven. Francis Libermann (1802-1852), the converted Alsatian Jew who became the second rounder or the great African missionary congregation and one or the most extraordinary spiritual directors or the 19th century. Written only rirty-nine years after his holy death, it still breathes the run rire or the old French school or missionary spirituality-berore the later simplifications and before Vatican 11 's new approach to the missions. 
Father G. Lee, himself a Holy Ghost Father formed in the severe pre-1917 rule, had direct access to Libermann's thousands or surviving letters and to the elderly missionaries who had knelt at his deathbed. The result is a biography that reads like a manual or heroic sanctity combined with a burning apostolate ror the "most abandoned souls, especially the poor Negroes or Africa." 

348 pages.

Author: G Lee CS. Sp.

Year: 1911