Alfonso Reyes y Francia

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal es un hombre excepcional. Su vida se extiende desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX hasta las puertas de la Guerra Civil y participa en algunos de los momentos clave de la época, como son las guerras carlistas, la pérdida del imperio colonial, la creación de la Junta para Ampliación de Estudios o el movimiento regeneracionista. Prolífico escritor nos habla, entre otras cosas, del nacimiento de los nacionalismos vasco y catalán, del hipnotismo o de la necesidad de la rueda de la ciencia en el carro de la cultura española. De ser un niño travieso, a quien su padre ...

Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy", American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer - a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustrations, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amid the "arrogance of...

Se recogen en este libro los textos de algunas entrevistas concedidas por san Josemaría a periodistas de distintas nacionalidades, entre 1966 y 1968. Se incluye también el texto de una homilía pronunciada por él en 1967 en la Universidad de Navarra ante más de cuarenta mil personas procedentes de numerosos países de Europa, y que complementa el contenido del resto del volumen.