{"product_id":"book-blessed-virgin-vol1-cluny","title":"The Book of the Blessed Virgin Volume 1: Mother of God","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 264 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFew men had as much an influence upon the leading lights of twentieth-century Catholicism as did F. J. Sheed. Helmsman of Sheed \u0026amp; Ward, “the most influential Catholic publishers in the English-speaking world,” Sheed was friend or publisher (or often both) to G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Caryll Houselander, Evelyn Waugh and Christopher Dawson, and many others. Having this singular grace of familiarity with Catholic letters, in 1950 Sheed asked of himself: “Each of [our] books told some part of what is to be known about Our Lady extraordinarily well; if no one of them covered everything, among them they covered a great deal. How much did they cover?” The answer to that question:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e—represented after more than seventy years (in two volumes) as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe angel said to her, Mary, do not be afraid; thou hast found favour in the\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003esight of God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebear a son…and men will know him for the Son of the most High.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(L\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003euke 1:30–32)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis volume presents the first two parts of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mary Book\u003c\/i\u003e: “Anticipation” and “From the Annunciation to the Assumption.” With selections from Knox and Houselander, Dietrich von Hildebrand and Charles Journet, Vincent McNabb and Sigrid Undset (among others), the readings in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Blessed Virgin: Mother of God\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecombine to offer a beautiful portrait of Our Lady as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003esancta Maria, Mater Dei\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185741689113,"sku":"BBV-CM\/VOL1","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/book_of_bl_virgin_1.jpg?v=1778044343","url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/products\/book-blessed-virgin-vol1-cluny","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}