A Watch in the Night Marian and apostolic Church

and apostolic Church

Her captive flames must needs burn there

Disparaging pictures of the Scholastic era commonly portray its figures as hard at work in calculating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin

then there has not yet been among men a greater than Ignatius of Loyola

Consequently

A Watch in the Night Marian and apostolic ChurchBy Helen C. White A Watch in the Night tells of one Jacopone da Todi, a famous poet of the Middle Ages. Devastated by the sudden death of his wife, Jacopone forsakes all his earthy possessions, undertaking a new life of asceticism and penance and eventually joining the Franciscan Order. There he assumes a critical role in the Orders internal struggles between the Conventuals, who affirm a more lenient interpretation of St. Franciss rule, and