Limovia Net: 170 books

La Passione di Gesù è un resoconto di Anna Caterina Emmerick, in cui l'autrice descrive alcune visioni che ha avuto e riguardanti la passione di Gesù, descritta sottolineandone gli aspetti più cruenti. Per quanto la tendenza ad esaltare i particolari più scabrosi...

The state of Virginity is undoubtedly commended in holy Scripture, both by our Lord and St. Paul, but learned men have differed in their opinions as to the original customs and rules observed by virgins in the earliest ages. Some suppose that from the very beginning it was the custom for them to...

Arianism is the theological teaching attributed to Arius (ca. AD 250–336), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of God to the Son of God (Jesus of Nazareth). Arius asserted that the Son of God was a subordinate entity to God the Father. Deemed a heretic by the...

The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Italian Fioretti di San Francesco) is a florilegium (excerpts of his body of work), divided into 53 short chapters, on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi which was composed at the end of the 14th century. The anonymous Italian text, almost certainly by a Tuscan...

John Chrysostom preached 8 sermons to his congregation against the Jews. These were transmitted to us in the Greek manuscripts of his works, but the 2nd sermon was much shorter than the others, leading scholars to suppose that most of that sermon was lost. This belief was confirmed in the 1990's...

Le Pseudo-Denys l'Aréopagite est l’auteur de traités chrétiens de théologie mystique, en grec. Il est l'une des sources majeures de la spiritualité chrétienne. C'était probablement un moine syrien qui a vécu vers l'an 500. D'inspiration néo-platonicienne,...

La Montée du Carmel ou « La subida del Monte carmelo » est un livre écrit par Jean de la Croix. Il décrit dans la montée du Carmel le rôle actif de l'âme dans son ascension vers Dieu1. À l'origine, la Montée du Carmel est un poème...

Denys l'Aréopagite (en grec : Διονύσιος ο Αρεοπαγίτης), est un Athénien dont le nom est mentionné au verset 34 du chapitre 17 du livre des Actes des Apôtres. « À ces mots de résurrection des morts, les uns se moquaient, les autres...

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (27 septembre 1627 à Dijon - 12 avril 1704 à Paris) était un homme d'Église, prédicateur et écrivain français. Certains voient en lui « le plus grand [orateur] peut-être que le monde ait connu». Appelé...

If we think over the rest of faults, tracing them from their generations, let us begin with covetousness, "a root of all evils," wherewith, indeed, some having been ensnared, "have suffered shipwreck about faith."Albeit covetousness is by the same apostle called idolatry. In the...

Jean-Pierre Caussade (7 mars 1675, Cahors, France - 8 décembre 1751, Toulouse, France) était un jésuite français et maître spirituel de renom. Entré dans la Compagnie de Jésus en 1693 et ordonné prêtre en 1704, Caussade passa d'abord par...

the author is Nicholas of Kues (1401 – August 11, 1464), also referred to as Nicolaus Cusanus and Nicholas of Cusa, was a German philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. One of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism, he made spiritual and political contributions...

Heralded as one of the great English mystics of the Middle Ages, Richard Rolle's religious adventures have been venerated since the 14th century. In the Fire of Love, Rolle describes his divine encounters by dividing the nature of the experience into three unique stages. Rolle describes the first...

L'autrice è Teresa di Gesù, o d'Ávila, al secolo Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada (Ávila, 28 marzo 1515 – Alba de Tormes, 15 ottobre 1582), è stata una religiosa e mistica spagnola. Entrata nel Carmelo di Avila a vent'anni, fuggita di casa,...