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Novels

  1. Elijah in Jerusalem
  2. We'll Never Tell Them

Articles

  1. Lay Siege to Heaven

    July 15, 2013 1:21 am Leave a Comment

    Continuing his popular series of novels about saints of the Church, de Wohl devotes his considerable talents to an interpretation of one of the most unusual women of all time, Saint Catherine of Siena. The daughter of a prosperous dyer in fourteenth-century Siena, Catherine never forgot the mystical experience of… Read more »

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  2. The Restless Flame

    July 15, 2013 1:18 am Leave a Comment

    This is a stirring novel which deals reverently but realistically with the fascinating life and era of St. Augustine, one of the most remarkable men of all time. In his vigorous and inimitable style, Louis de Wohl tells the story of St. Augustine’s transformation from a vain, sensual youth to… Read more »

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  3. The Quiet Light

    July 15, 2013 1:16 am Leave a Comment

    The famous novelist de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. Thomas Aquinas, set against the violent background of the Italy of the Crusades. He tells the intriguing story of St. Thomas who defied his illustrious, prominent family’s ambition for him to have great power in the… Read more »

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  4. Citadel of God

    July 15, 2013 1:14 am Leave a Comment

    Another of the popular historical novels by the distinguished de Wohl, telling the dramatic story of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, who played such a major role in the Christianization and civilization of post-Roman Europe in the sixth century. De Wohl weaves an intricate tapestry of love, violence… Read more »

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  5. Set All Afire

    July 15, 2013 1:12 am Leave a Comment

    Saint Francis Xavier’s life is, in itself, a dramatic story. With humility and deep religious conviction, the famous Catholic novelist Louis de Wohl takes us into the mind and heart of this great missionary and saint who went by order of St. Ignatius of Loyola to “set all afire” in… Read more »

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  6. The Joyful Beggar

    July 15, 2013 1:09 am Leave a Comment

    In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant’s son who might have been right-hand man to a king … and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous background of 13th… Read more »

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  7. The Golden Thread

    July 15, 2013 1:07 am Leave a Comment

    As in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mind and heart of a saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the era in which he lived. Here is a skillful weaving of the story of St…. Read more »

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  8. Theophilos

    July 15, 2013 12:53 am Leave a Comment

    St. Luke addressed his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles to a man named Theophilos. Who was Theophilos? Scripture scholars do not know, making him a fit subject for Michael O’Brien’s vivid imagination. In this fictional narrative, Theophilos is the skeptical but beloved adoptive father of St. Luke. Challenged… Read more »

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  9. The Living Wood

    July 14, 2013 7:13 pm Leave a Comment

    The renowned novelist De Wohl, with his usual crisp language and descriptive narrative, as well as irony and humor, presents the colorful and tumultuous times of the early Christian era in this story of intrigue, romance and power politics revolving around Helena, the devoted and saintly mother of Constantine, the… Read more »

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  10. The Last Crusader

    July 14, 2013 7:03 pm Leave a Comment

    Don Juan of Austria, one of history’s most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant’s hut. Acknowledged by King Philip as… Read more »

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