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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Stewart Perowne takes the reader on a pilgrimage which starts off in the Holy Land in the footsteps of Our Lord: the scene of the Nativity the Flight into Egypt the Baptism in the Jordan the Mounts of Temptation of the Beatitudes and of the Transfiguration and finally from Bethany to Jerusalem for Holy Week. He knows all these sites intimately. We then journey with St Paul throughout the Mediterranean to Antioch to Ephesus to Malta and ultimately to the scene of his death in Rome. With the spread of the Church we venture ever further: to Britain to Europe to India with St Thomas and St Francis Xavier and to China and Japan to Ireland with St Patrick to Egypt and Ethiopia to Poland and to Russia to the New World of North and South America with the Jesuits Franciscans and the Pilgrim Fathers to Africa with David Livingstone. Standing where the Wise Men stood looking into the house at Bethlehem the pilgrim gains a new perspective of the Christmas story: for it was here that the Word was made Flesh. And who whatever Christian tradition he comes from can stand on Calvary in the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem without a sense of awe: for here in a place venerated and even fought over for centuries is the very centre of Christendom. (LL)