City of God (4 Vol. set)

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Summary: Best book ever written on the Blessed Virgin Mary
Review: A very interesting and powerful book on the life of Our Blessed Lady. With lessons on humility and how to live a life of Holiness. A Catholic Goldmine. My personal favourite.

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Summary: A Cathlic Goldmine.
Review: As an additional comment on this masterpiece, I have to admit that I'm buying a 2nd set of ths treasure. Eventhough its quite pricey, when it comess to spiritual food, no price is too much when it comes to salvation. Besides the 1st set of mine was "found" in an old bookstore in Conyers GA and it was pretty heavy to carry it to my home to this side of the world. But its the best books I've ever read in my entire life, after the Holy Bible. If you are serious of Heaven and learning as much as possible of the spiritual craft, this detailed instructions from from Our Lady is an essential to any prayer warrior. Fantastic.

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Summary: City of God
Review: This book, written between the years 1655 and 1665, by Sister Mary, Superioress of the convent of the Immaculate Conception of the town of Agreda (Spain), tacitly and indirectly received highest formal approvals of the Catholic Church during a time when books were still scrutinized for fraud, deceit, etc., much more diligently so than they are in our era. While recognizing this to be a private revelation, the English translator (it was originally written in Spanish) states that "there are no writings ... which exhibit more reliable human proofs of divine origin than [this book]." I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. It is highly praised and recommended by the Catholic Church for all Catholic faithful to read with the intention of increasing all the virtues, and attaining to the beatific vision. It is a veritable biography of Mary, the Mother of God, and reveals details that could only be known to Jesus' mother, herself, unless she personally shared these details with someone else. It explains many passages of Scripture which otherwise remain obscure to the human intellect. There are so many other laudatory remarks I could make if there were room for them in this review. This book is for the reader who wants to know, more fully, the mind of the (Traditional) Catholic Church for 2,000 years, the mind of God, and the purpose for creating the universe and man. There are many references to various aspects of Catholic faith, in perfect agreement with what Thomas Aquinas taught. This book completely confounds the Modernist foundation in so-called 'theistic' evolution: according to this book, the universe and man were created in the month of March, approximately 7200 years ago. This is obviously contrary to popular modern beliefs, which have been conditioned by extremes of Rationalism.