BARTOLO LONGO VOLUME 1 - CHRISTIAN BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE HUNDRED

Illibato Antonio. - This biography of Blessed Bartolo Longo, who now sees light in a first volume, places the story in the political, social and religious reality of his time.

ISBN: 97888

Review: It is the first biography of Bartolo Longo that can be defined as a historical breath, without agiographic concessions, dismissed by the many heard say that they accompanied the research around the founder of the Sanctuary of Pompeii and immersed in a broad and articulated picture of the problems of their time. what makes authoritative the first volume of this biography by Bartolo Longo is the use of that extensive archival exploration, which had already been requested at the historical conference of Pompeii in 1982. This writing reveals a work of great thickness: rediscovers the person and the work of a protagonist and sheds light on a substantial page of the social and religious history of the noon of Italy. It also shows an unpublished image of the founder of the Sanctuary and the new Pompeii: that of a man attentive to the problems of his own time and of a Christian who aims to give them a solution in line with his religious belief.

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