The Son of Man Daniel-Rops Based on true events and

Based on true events and individuals in the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics in England

Serving as chancellor of England (second only to the king in power and authority)

states in the Introduction: “Dominican saints characteristically labor without toil

the novel retains the Alvear family and Gerona as its psychological and geographical nuclei while also traversing the entirety of Spain as the chaos of the conflict dictates

so too do these martyrs sing

The Son of Man Daniel-Rops Based on true events andBy Franois Mauriac In his 1937 The Life of Jesus, Franois Mauriac set out to show the meaning of Christ for an ordinary Christian, an ordinary layman, strongly bound up with the things of the world. Similarly motivated, The Son of Man meditates upon Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, as the sole remedy for the anguish and suffering of life. Contemplating Christs childhood, his hidden years in Nazareth, his passion, death, and resurrection, Mauriac