For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka [MP3 CD] [Jan 01, 2018] William T. KANE (1880 - 1946) Unknown - 2018

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New. CHAPTER I</br></br></br></br> ON THE ROAD</br></br></br></br> Mid-August in Vienna, the year 1567: when Shakespeare was still a little boy; twenty years before Philip II fitted out the Spanish Armada; forty years before the first English colony settled in America. The sun had just well risen, the gates of Vienna had been opened but a few hours. Through the great western gate, which cast its long shadow on the road to Augsburg, came a strange-looking boy.</br></br> He lacked but a month or two of seventeen years, was some five feet two or three inches in height, had an oval face of remarkable beauty and liveliness, jet black hair, and eyes in which merriment dwelt as in its home. He was dressed as became a noble of the time, and in apparel of unusual splendor and costliness; plumed bonnet, slashed velvet doublet, tight silken hose, jeweled dagger at his girdle.</br></br> But it was odd to… Leer más