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A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Described by a Surgeon

A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Described by a Surgeon

by Pierre Barbet

Publication Year
1950
Language
English
Pages
269
File Size
2.9 MB
ISBN
9780912141046

A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ As Described by a Surgeon Summary

What the Gospels don’t reveal about Christ’s suffering, science does. The Gospels reveal only the barest essentials about the physical sufferings of Our Lord. But in this mind-opening book, Dr. Pierre Barbet relies heavily on his close analysis of the Holy Shroud of Turin to recreate every stage of the Passion with heart-rending precision and detail. The result: a minor cl What the Gospels don’t reveal about Christ’s suffering, science does. The Gospels reveal only the barest essentials about the physical sufferings of Our Lord. But in this mind-opening book, Dr. Pierre Barbet relies heavily on his close analysis of the Holy Shroud of Turin to recreate every stage of the Passion with heart-rending precision and detail. The result: a minor classic of spirituality by a modern layman. For Lenten meditation, this volume is unsurpassed. Dr. Barbet was a devout Catholic who knew the spiritual value of his findings – and he encouraged priests to use them in homilies: “It is largely with a view to these clerics that I have wished to divulge my ideas, so that they may nourish their devotion to Jesus crucified and may bring it out in their preaching.” [118]…more

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