Description
Revised ed. by Matthew Bunson.
Still the most comprehensive single-volume compendium on the Church's past, from Pentecost morning to today's pontiff, OSV's Encyclopedia of Catholic History, Revised, gives you:
Some 2,750 entries based on more than 1,000 sources.
An easy-to-use alphabetical format and a reader-friendly style
Cross references for finding additional information.
A trusted resource on which students, from grade school to graduate school, can rely.
Each entry has been examined for improvement or updating, and more than two hundred items have been added. New features include:
The latest encyclicals and papal documents, such as (Evangelium Vitae, Ut Unum Sint, Fides et Ratio, Ecclessia de Eucharistia, and more).
Biographies of the most recently canonized and beatified, such as Padre Pio, Josemaria Escriva, and Mother Teresa.
Histories of Catechetics, the Divine Office, and the Marian Year.
And more! Hardcover, 1054 pages.