by Constant Fouard

Next to the period of Our Lord’s earthly life, the apostolic age that followed was—and is—the richest and most revealing for Christians. It was then that the blueprint for living the Gospels was drawn. Yet, for Catholics of the past two generations, the indispensable fruits of the Patristic Era have been all but memory holed, and the Church and broader society have suffered for it.

This book holds Abbe Constant Fouard’s intimate and ingenious account of the early years of Christianity. Fouard created an authoritative and reverent account based on the Acts of the Apostles, brimming with precious facts from historians of Greece and Rome, penetrating reflections on Saints Matthew and Mark’s Gospels, an extensive outline related by Saint Luke, and a timeless introduction by James Cardinal Gibbons which upholds the authenticity of the Sacred Scriptures.

This work brings to life through fascinating narratives and intimate details:

• The life of St. Peter. not only as an apostle, but as a man
• The true story of the early Church—free from modern criticism
• The ancient Roman culture and religion
• The moral condition of the pagan world (Is it better or worse than today?)
• Six fascinating aspects of early Christian worship
• Three ways that the Holy Spirit taught the Apostles to transmit the Faith

Paperback, 472 pages