Emblemata Sacra
Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

The catalogue of an exhibition mounted at the Francis A. Drexel Library at Saint Joseph’s University in spring 2006. This exhibit took place in conjunction with the celebration of the Society of Jesus’s commemoration in 2006 of three major anniversaries: the 450th anniversary of the death of its founder, St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), as well as the 500th anniversary of the birth of Ignatius’s first two companions, St. Francis Xavier (1506-52) and Bl. Peter Faber (1506-46).

I Leave You My Heart:
A Visitandine Chronicle of the French Revolution
Translated & Edited by Pèronne-Marie Thibert, V.H.M.

Marie-Jéronyme Vérot, Lyons Bellecour monastery's mother superior, offers a narrative of divine intervention. She recounts the intertwined tales of the virtually miraculous escape of her community from the terror and persecution of revolutionary France to re-found their monastery in Mantua, and of the providential preservation during this course of events of these Visitandines' most prized possession, the relic of the heart of their founder, St. Francis de Sales.

“He Spared Himself in Nothing”:
Essays on the Life and Thought of St. John N. Neumann, C.Ss.R.

Edited by Joseph Chorpenning, O.S.F.S.

The year 2002 marked a double anniversary for one of Philadelphia’s own, St. John N. Neumann, C.Ss.R.: the 25th anniversary of his canonization, and the 150th anniversary of his episcopal ordination as fourth bishop of Philadelphia. This volume of essays on Neumann’s intellectual formation, ministry, theology and spirituality commemorates these dual historic occasions.

Hidden in God:
Essays and Talks on St. Jane Frances de Chantal

This volume collects eight essays and talks by the late author of the definitive biography of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Madame de Chantal: Portrait of a Saint (1962). Among the topics addressed are the co-founding of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal; the changing image of Jane over the period of four centuries; Dr. Stopp’s reflections on her Madame de Chantal twenty-five years after its initial publication; and hiddenness as the hallmark of the saint’s personality and holiness.

 

Fully Instructed and Vehemently Influenced:
Catholic Preaching in Anglo-Colonial America

Joseph C. Linck

Preaching held an important place in the life of colonial Anglo-America. It has widely been assumed that, in comparison to Protestant sermons, little relevant material survived from the labors of the Catholic missioners of the colonial era. An examination of the manuscripts preserved in the American Catholic Sermon Collection at Georgetown University, however, provides an opportunity to test this theory.

The Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love:
Images from the Viceregal Americas

In spring 1996, Saint Joseph’s University mounted this exhibition, which commemorated the 75th anniversary of the extension of the Feast of the Holy Family to the liturgical calendar of the Universal Church. The exhibition displayed paintings from the Spanish Colonial period, rare books and engravings from 17th- and 18th-century Europe, and lithographs and devotional paintings on tin from 19th-century Mexico and New Mexico.

The Holy Family in Art and Devotion

The Holy Family in Art and Devotion is a collection of essays on the iconography and history of devotion to the Holy Family of Nazareth. These essays were selected from among the papers delivered at the Holy Family Symposium, held in April 1996 at Saint Joseph's University, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the extension of the Feast of the Holy Family to the liturgical calendar of the Universal Church. It concludes with a synthesis of the most significant elements of the teaching of Pope John Paul II and of the American bishops on the Holy Family.

Hopkins Variations:
Standing Round a Waterfall
co-published with Fordham University Press
Edited by Joaquin Kuhn & Joseph J. Feeney, S.J.

Warm, personal, original, Hopkins Variations offers fifty-five perspectives on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Opening with an essay by Seamus Heaney, it offers the views of scholars from thirteen countries: poets, actors, translators, scholars, theologians, an artist, a composer, a novelist, and a philosopher included.

 

The Human Search for Truth: Philosophy, Science, Theology
The Outlook for the Third Millennium

One of the most important events that took place in Rome during the Great Jubilee Year was the International Conference on Science and Faith,“The Human Search for Truth: Science, Philosophy, Theology. The Outlook for the Third Millennium,” held at the Vatican from the 23rd to the 25th May 2000, as part of the Giubileo degli Scienziati. “Science” is here understood in its broadest sense, thus encompassing the experimental sciences, the human sciences, and the sciences of the spirit—philosophy and theology.