Ulick Joseph Bourke
Published: 2018-03-24
Total Pages: 178
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Excerpt from The Bull "Ineffabilis" In Four Languages, or the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary Defined: With an Introduction, and a Dissertation on the Art of Illuminating Testimony of Protestant authorities who have been by no means favourably dis posed to the Catholic religion, but who are forced to tell historic facts This knowledge important to the growing youth in schools and colleges in Ireland The great amount of toil the monks of the middle ages underwent in copying books Before the art of printing had been known the monks were the guardians and culti vators of all works on religion and secular learning A synopsis of the different styles of illuminating as known to the ancients The Roman; the Byzantine; the Irish or Celtic The anglo-celtic, or hiberno-saxon The Romanesque The franco-celtic The Saxon. The Gothic. The Italian and Spanish styles The period of decay. The Renaissance The present time Letters of the Abbe Sire to the Very Rev. Father Bennett, President of All Hallows. Letters to the writer the irish manuscript OF the bull ineffabilis, and its illumination in the Celtic style The Religieuses of the Presentation Convent, Tuam Convent of Mercy, Tuam Baggot-street, Dublin AN account OF the project undertaken BY the arre sire, and its suc cessful issue The French people as a nation are Catholic, noble, and enterprising What the Abbe' has actually achieved A second manuscript Copy of the present Irish translation by the writer, containing the remarkable events in the civrl and religious history of Ireland illuminated on the margins of the pages, is to be presented to the Holy Father by the Countess de Marstre (ne'e o'byrne) appendix Another Brief, dated 3oth November, 1867, from the Holy Father to the Abhé. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.