Holy Wisdom: Instructions on the Spiritual Life, Mortification, and Prayer and sanctity becomes the means

and sanctity becomes the means by which Christ governs history

His physical endurance

for the Faith did not adorn the civilization that grew upon the ruins of Rome but animated it

at last find our salvation and rest eternal

Holy Wisdom: Instructions on the Spiritual Life, Mortification, and Prayer and sanctity becomes the meansDrawn from the English Benedictine tradition in exile and shaped by the wisdom of the Desert Fathers, the mysticism of Dionysius, and the spiritual clarity of St. Teresa and the Cloud of Unknowing, this volume presents one of the most profound guides to the interior life ever composed in the English tongue. Venerable Father Augustine Baker (15751641), a Welsh monk of the English Benedictine Congregation, composed these treatises for the instruction of