{"product_id":"the-revealer-of-the-globe-lzson-bloy-9781955392600","title":"The Revealer of the Globe: Christopher Columbus \u0026 His Future Beatification","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten and published in 1884, L?on Bloyʼs \u003cem\u003eThe Revealer of the Globe: Christopher Columbus and His Future Beatification\u003c\/em\u003e is an attempt by the author to renew the Cause for Canonization of Christopher Columbus. This is part one of that work. It includes a preface by Jules Barbey dʼAurevilly. To read this book today feels sometimes like reading a book written only yesterday. Christopher Columbus represents the West and Western Civilization as no other person before him can or ever will. And everyone else, \u003cem\u003eintra\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eextra muros\u003c\/em\u003e, those who do not subscribe to that civilization but inherit all its benefits - they are the angry, ingrateful hordes some of whom, quite clearly, do not know what they do, nor what their actions imply. L?on Bloy says it best when he says: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe prejudice against Christopher Columbus is so tenacious and so strong that the greatest poet in the world, supposing him inspired by the most magnificent of all indignations, would never succeed in overcoming it.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDoubtless also, he had to believe that that captive world would not be handed over to him without a fight and his heroic soul counted on the God of the oppressed to decide his fortune. But the extraordinary injustice, the unprecedented ingratitude, the indefatigable persistence of misfortunes as he had never seen before and, above all, the supernatural, absolute, implacable insuccess of all his efforts - with the exception of the Discovery, - that there must have strangely astonished his soul, which was unique among the unique!\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Léon Bloy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955392609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955392600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunny Lou Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Léon Bloy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46670557217023,"sku":"9781955392600","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c8f0f1e-dfc3-4588-9852-53462fc35ba6.jpg?v=1741316990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-revealer-of-the-globe-lzson-bloy-9781955392600","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}