The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 1 Hughes Saint John Fisher: His Life

Saint John Fisher: His Life and Works still stands as a standard work on “this most holy man [who] laid down his life for God” (Pope Paul III)

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The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 1 Hughes Saint John Fisher: His LifeBy Henri Daniel Rops The Church of Apostles and Martyrs is the first installment in Henri Daniel Rops magnificent and enormously popular History of the Church of Christ. Volume 1 includes the first six chapters of that work, surveying the first years of the Church until the destruction of Jerusalem in A. D. 70; the peerless contributions of St. Paul; the relations between imperial Rome and the fledgling Church; the persecutions and first martyrdoms;