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In 1843, Sweden witnessed the advent of a new religious leader, Eric Janson. Identifying himself as a new prophet, Janson led many people away from the established Lutheran Church. Coming under persecution from the authorities, Janson and some 1,100 followers emigrated to the United States, and founded Bishop Hill, a religious commune on the prairies of Illinois. (This was the first mass exodus of Swedes to North America.)

This book is about Bishop Hill, and is an excellent resource for anyone interested in it. Instead of being organized chronologically, as a history of the colony, this book is instead an examination of the colony itself. It begins with a history of the Jansonists, and their exodus to Illinois, but it quickly moves beyond life in the colony, its industries and architecture, and the many experiences of those who lived their. Along the way, the reader is treated to many interesting pictures and maps, and reminisces of people who actually lived their, including Capt. Eric Johnson, son of the colony's founder.

Overall, I found this to be a great resource. As might me expected from a book designed for tourists and enthusiasts, it is not as organized as it should be. But, that said, there is a great deal of information in this book that I have not seen anywhere else. So, if you are interested in Eric Janson and Bishop Hill, then this is one book that you really must get. I highly recommend it!

In 1843, Sweden witnessed the advent of a new religious leader, Eric Janson. Identifying himself as a new prophet, Janson led many people away from the established Lutheran Church. Coming under persecution from the authorities, Janson and some 1,100 followers emigrated to the United States, and founded Bishop Hill, a religious commune on the prairies of Illinois. (This was the first mass exodus of Swedes to North America.)

This book is about Bishop Hill, and is an excellent resource for anyone interested in it. Instead of being organized chronologically, as a history of the colony, this book is instead an examination of the colony itself. It begins with a history of the Jansonists, and their exodus to Illinois, but it quickly moves beyond life in the colony, its industries and architecture, and the many experiences of those who lived their. Along the way, the reader is treated to many interesting pictures and maps, and reminisces of people who actually lived their, including Capt. Eric Johnson, son of the colony's founder.

Overall, I found this to be a great resource. As might me expected from a book designed for tourists and enthusiasts, it is not as organized as it should be. But, that said, there is a great deal of information in this book that I have not seen anywhere else. So, if you are interested in Eric Janson and Bishop Hill, then this is one book that you really must get. I highly recommend it!

On the occasion of the centennial of the founding of the Missionary Fathers and Brothers of Saint Charles, the General Administrations of the Missionary Fathers and Brothers of Saint Charles and of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles have undertaken to jointly publish an anthology of the writings of their Founder, Bishop John Baptist Scalabrini (1839-1905).

The collected writings of Bishop Scalabrini fill some 7,000 pages, gathered into 14 thick volumes. In culling from these pages the pasages found in the present anthology, the editors observed several criteria. They wanted:
1) to put into the hands of the religious men and women who look to Scalabrini as their founder the key notions for a better understanding of his charism in all its various aspects;
2) to give the admirers of the Servant of God, particularly those who have the cause of the migrants at heart, the chance to read the more important pages of his message;
3) to help people understand Scalabrini's life as Servant of God, priest and bishop of the Church, evangelizer, man of social and cultural action, and Apostle of the Migrants, through direct knowledge of the ideas and principles that guided him.

Around these five themes, in fact, we have collected these pages of the anthology:

I Man of God and for God

II Man of the Church and for the Church

III Man of the Word and for the Word

IV Man of the people and for the people

V Man of the migrants and for the migrants

In other words, Scalabrini is a man who was all for God because he belonged wholly to God: a man who worked and sacrificed himself for the Church because he felt he was a living part of the Church; a man who devoted himself to the Word of God because he let himself be molded by it; a man who poured himself out for his fellow human beings because he was gifted with a rich humanity; a man who consecrated himself to the migrants because he made their cause his own.

Ther are five sections in the book. At the begining of each section, we offer some guidelines for interpreting that section and, at the beginning of each subdivision, a brief summary showing the logical sequence of the passages to follow.

In putting together this anthology, we tried not to exceed the dimensions of an easy-to-handle book. Pasages not indispensable to the understanding of the text were left out. We indicate this fact by the use of the ellipsis between parenthesis. The bibliographical apparatus is very simple. The explanatory notes, too, are kept to a minimum. Anyone wishing to better understand the context should read the biography of Mario Francesconi, Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini: Bishop and founder (1839-1905) : father to the immigrants.
--- from book's introduction

Rare combination of thought provoking study on the Catholic church today and bodice ripper! Great book -worth your time.

This book is great! Details one year of an escaped convict, who becomes a Presby minister, shows the changes in his life. I would highly recommend it to all!

I was looking forward to reading this book, and I read it in one sitting.

I had met and spoken with Bishop Alphonse Gallegos once, in 1986 or 1987, I believe. It was at a St. Patrick's Day fundraiser. I was a volunteer bartender, and so I was in a position to observe him interacting with everyone else. Previously, I had never heard of him.. Before the dinner started, however, he came up to me and introduced himself. I believe he told me to just call him Al. Later, someone mentioned that he was the assistant Bishop for Hispanic affairs in Los Angeles. He was a warm, very outgoing, "people" person and not the least bit stiff, aloof or patronizing. You would never know he was a Bishop! My own personal conversation with him lasted probably less than sixty seconds. And yet for those few seconds, I felt profoundly valued as a person. I have never forgotten that. The picture of him in this book, verified by my own personal encounter, shows a man fully engaged with life and wholly dedicated to following Christ.

The accident that cost him his life was a huge loss for the church in America. There is a line in a Billy Joel song that goes, "Only the good die young." I have known other good people who died too young, and I have only been able to reconcile it in my mind by concluding that God likes to take the good people sooner rather than later.

This book will show you the reality of the rise and fall of Catholicism since Vatican II. It documents the takeover of that Council and the establishment of the Society of St. Pius X to counteract the collapse of the Church. May God bless all who read this or any of the works of Archbishop Lefebvre.

Every chess player has read annotations like "he gave up the bishop for the knight to increase his hold on the center" or "his miscalculation of the sacrificing the minor exchage led him to an untenable endgame."

This book lays out the details that permit you to judge if these comments are just annotational blather, or if they are the keys to the kingdome. In every game we play we have the oppotunity to either exchange a bishop for a knight --- or not. There is no more detailed guidance that that found here in this book.

James Edward Walsh founded the first American Catholic mission in China. During his years there, schools and orphanages, clinics and chapels, seminaries and hospitals were established under his guidance. In 1936, he returned to the U.S. to become superior-general of the Order (Maryknoll Society), but after serving 10 years in that office, he went back once again to his beloved China.

In 1958 Bishop Walsh, called by his thousands of converts "the Pillar of Truth in China," was accused by the Communists of being an imperalist spy and condemned at a trial he was not permitted to attend. In a crowded courtroom in Shanghai he was sentenced to twenty years in a Communist prison.

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