Synopsis
The Dark Ages—a name befitting a time of confusion and darkness, tears and blood, an epoch brought about by the collapse of the ancient world, the fall of Rome, and the foundering of imperial and cultural order into a chaos of savagery. Against this darkness, a light endured, the only surviving power of the West’s disaster: Christianity. From Ireland, this light shone out with a miraculous brilliance and men and women set forth, as if in a second iteration of the Great Commission, to claim all souls for Christ and cradle them and their newfound faith in their arms. Edited by the renowned Church historian Henri Daniel-Rops, The Miracle of Ireland pays homage to these saints and their extraordinary faith in and love for Christ, their labors to build up His Church, and their legacy of civilization and culture upon which the West was made.
First published in 1959, with over a dozen essays on the spiritual teaching and practice of Irish saints, the vastness and vitality of Irish monasticism, the missionary endeavors of the Irish in Belgium, England, and Switzerland, and the prodigious influence of Irish art, The Miracle of Ireland pays proper tribute to those Celtic Christian pioneers whose faith traced the plans of giving Christ back to the world.
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