Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era
by
Joseph F. Byrnes
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to...