A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor … “I hold God made

… “I hold God made all for the best

as “a man in whom the decision for Christ and genuine worldly greatness lay in bitter struggle

Marion Crawford | Introduction by Stephen Schmalhofer

it is said

First finding success with fairy-stories for children

A Spiritual Aeneid Edwin O'Connor … “I hold God madeBy Ronald Knox As Ronald Knox was preparing to enter the Catholic Church, he took with him, as a spiritual reading traveling companion, Virgils Aeneid. The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Romethe Eternal City of Christendom. Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame, as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, A Spiritual Aeneid is Knoxs account of his