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"Arrested as a 'spy' in 1958 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, Bishop James Edward Walsh was the last American and foreign missioner to remain in China. As director of the Catholic Central Bureau in Shanghai, the former Superior General of Maryknoll was placed under house arrest after the Communist take-over. Later he was subjected to a staged trial. In 1970, after serving 12 years in prison, the Communists unexpectedly released the 79-year-old bishop. ... Collected here for the first time are unpublished Walsh writings recalling his consecration as bishop, his prison years and some recent reflections."--Dust jacket back.
Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of 15th-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes.
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Defenders of the faith have been raised up in every era of the Church to proclaim fidelity to the truth by their words and deeds. Some have fought heresy and overcome confusion like Athanasius against the Arians and Ignatius Loyola in response to the Protestant reformers. Others have shed their blood for the faith, like the early Christian martyrs of Rome, or Thomas More, John Fisher and Edmund Campion in Reformation England. Still others have endured a "dry" martyrdom like St. Philip Howard, Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty and Jesuit Walter Ciszek. Intellectuals have been no less conspicuous in their zealous defense of the faith, like Bonaventure, Albert, Thomas Aquinas, or Cardinal Joseph Ratzi...
An illustrated guide to the history, selection and care of Golden retrievers.