Edited by Henri Daniel-Rops

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. 

For a long time, throughout the centuries, and especially through the agency of
the religious houses which came from them, the West knew what it owed to these Irish missionaries, thanks to whom the Gospel had been sown once again… (Henri Daniel-Rops)

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.

Henri Daniel-Rops (1901–1965) was a French Catholic historian. Over a span of just thirty years, he wrote seventy books, including the monumental, ten-volume History of the Church of Christ. Phenomenally successful in his own time, Daniel-Rops made religious history accessible and popular. In 1956 he received the Order of St. Gregory from Pope Pius XII.

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Paperback: 224pp.

ISBN: 978-1685954758