A Rêde Dourada (Coleção "Os Grandes Romances do Cristianismo" #21)

"The Golden Thread": A novel about St. Ignatius de Loyola '-' 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 Saint Ignatius de Loyola’s conversion and pilgrimage with the colorful and dangerous history of Spain and Italy in the early sixteenth century. The life of the very human, very great Basque nobleman who founded the Jesuit Order, makes for one of de Louis de Wohl’s finest novels.

Seriously wounded at the siege of Pamplona in 1521, Don Inigo de Loyola learned that to be a Knight of God was an infinitely greater honor (and infinitely more dangerous) than to be a Knight in the forces of the Emperor. Uli von der Flue, humorous, intelligent and courageous Swiss mercenary, was responsible for the canon shot which incapacitated the worldly and ambitious young nobleman, and Uli became deeply involved in Loyola’s life. With Juanita, disguised as the boy Juan, Uli followed Loyola on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to protect him, but it was the saint who protected Uli and Juan. Through Uli’s eyes we see the surge and violence of the turbulent period in Jerusalem, Spain and Rome. Louis de Wohl has again created an exciting and spiritually inspiring novel for all readers of historical fiction.
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https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inácio_de_Loyola
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_de_Loyola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola
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Louis de Wohl (1903 - 1961) es uno de los grandes de la novela histórica del sigo XX. Nacido en Berlin, abandonó voluntariamente la Alemania de Hitler en 1935, a causa de la desintegración moral de su País... Entre sus obras de gran éxito destacan en castellano "El Último Cruzado" (sobre D. Juan de Austria); "La Luz Apacible" (sobre Sto. Tomás de Aquino); o "Corazón Inquieto" (sobre S. Agustin).
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[About the Author]: Louis de Wohl was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 during World War II. Sixteen of his popular pre-war novels were the basis of movies. His later novels are literary hagiographies of notable Roman Catholic saints and of different periods of the Bible. Mr. de Wohl was a Knight Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and his wife (nee Ruth Magdalene Lorch, whom he married in 1953) is a Lady Commander of the same Order. His fifty books include The Living Wood (Lippincott, 1947), Imperial Renegade (id., 1950), The Restless Flame (id., 1951), Throne of the World (id., 1949; published in England as Attila), The Golden Thread (Lippincott, 1952), The Second Conquest (id., 1954), Set All Afire (id., 1953), The Spear (id., 1955), and St. Joan, the Girl Soldier (Farrar, 1957) in the Vision Books series.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Wohl
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Louis_de_Wohl

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