The Vatican Council, Volume I Blessed Mother Francis must become as gold

Francis must become as gold in the furnace: purified by fire for the praise and glory and honor of his Lord and God

the final novel in The Abruzzo Trilogy

convert to Roman Catholicism

and highly regarded

adeptly explains the novel’s literary structure

The Vatican Council, Volume I Blessed Mother Francis must become as goldBy Cuthbert Butler, O. S. B. The First Vatican Council is a landmark in the history of the Catholic Church. Not since the momentous Council of Trent, held from 1545 to 1563, had a pope invoked his apostolic authority to open an ecumenical council, as Pope Pius IX did on December 8, 1869, in St. Peters Basilica. In 1869 as in 1545, storms buffeted the Barque of the Church, threatening to subvert and submerge its mission. To confront and refute errors