A Spiritual Aeneid Charles de Foucauld Kristin raises her sons and

Kristin raises her sons and seeks reconciliation with her own mother and father

Stephen Mirarchi is Assistant Professor of English at Benedictine College in Atchison

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embodied fact—in the flesh—as it is an “idea

Identifying these two positions as the poles between which the evangelistic orientation of the Church moves

A Spiritual Aeneid Charles de Foucauld Kristin raises her sons andBy Ronald Knox As Ronald Knox was preparing to enter the Catholic Church, he took with him, as a spiritual reading traveling companion, Virgils Aeneid. The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Romethe Eternal City of Christendom. Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame, as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, A Spiritual Aeneid is Knoxs account of his