The Man Nearest to Christ Connolly Isaac and Jacob

Isaac and Jacob

ISBN: 978-1944418700

Frederick William Faber and Alice and Wilfrid Meynell

achieves that difficult task of being at once “sincere and true and unsentimental

The Man Nearest to Christ Connolly Isaac and JacobBy Francis L. Filas, S. J. Saint Joseph, the faithful and prudent servant whom the Lord has set over His household, was declared patron of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1870. Yet devotion to the foster father of Jesus Christ has been a feature of the Christian life since the earliest days of the Church. In The Man Nearest to Christ, Francis L. Filas expertly surveys the nature and historic development of devotion to Saint Joseph, faithfully