"Leon XIV. Biography illustrated" . The monumental biography of Leon XIV written in Poland!

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"Leon XIV. Biography illustrated" . The monumental biography of Leon XIV written in Poland!
date: July 04, 2025 Editor: Anna

It is 1 of the most crucial literary events – both nationally and globally! The first and most extended Polish biography of Father Robert Prevost – Leon XIV, appears at the minute erstwhile the full planet is attentively observing the beginnings of his pontificate.
When Robert Prevost's name came out of the loggia of St Peter's Basilica little than a period and a half ago, many of us wondered who the fresh Pope was, what he would be and what was crucial to him. The challenges of answering these questions were addressed by Dr. Adam Sosnowski – writer and observer of this year's conclave and Fr.

Inside: 416 pages full of facts, meticulous documentation, unique photographs and archives, quotes from the homily and over a 100 conversations – with the Leon XIV family, his erstwhile collaborators, cardinals and monks! It is simply a communicative that moves, inspires and allows us to rediscover the spiritual depth of life and vocation. A compulsory lesson for those who want to realize who the fresh Pope is and where the Church can lead!

It is more than a biography – it is simply a fascinating journey across continents and decades, leading from a modest parish in the suburbs through Peruvian Andy, the Midwest of the United States, to the temples of Rome and the walls of the Vatican.
The exclusive, mostly never-published photographs of Michael Klag uncover the unknown face of Pope Prevost – they paper his childhood and youth, pastoral work in the Andes, the last Mass before his election as Pope, as well as the first days of pontificate that have already been recorded in the past of the Church. The authors reached co-brothers, co-workers from the Roman Curia, parishioners, students and friends of the pope from various stages of his life. Their stories and testimonies make a colourful, moving and profoundly human image of the man who present leads the Catholic Church through an age of tension and hope.
This is not a brochure prepared for the conclave. This is simply a actual complete biography, 400 pages of reliable, journalistic work, based on conversations, documents, archives and copyrights, many of which are first published.
A separate chapter devoted to Poland is peculiarly valuable – Prevost's relationships with our country, his visits to Krakow, meetings with Augustians and Augustians, as well as unique photographs of these events, which were first made public. For the Polish reader, this is an crucial trace of the spiritual proximity of Leon XIV with the Church in Poland – and another proof that this biography goes deeper than any erstwhile study.
A valuable complement to this unique biographical communicative is the solid historical background that Fr. Janusz Królikowski, an outstanding theologian, a specialist in dogmatics, a Vaticanist and an expert in the past and teaching of the Catholic Church, has developed. The chapter devoted to the popes bearing the name Leon – from Leon I the large to Leon XIII – is respective twelve pages of reflection showing how large the heritage of thought, social service and spiritual authority carries this name.

It is simply a communicative that moves, inspires and allows us to rediscover the spiritual depth of life and vocation. A compulsory lesson for those who want to realize who the fresh Pope is and where the Church can lead!
Adam Sosnowski, Fr Janusz Królikowski: "Leon XIV. Illustrated Biography", Wyd. Biały Kruk, 416 pages, 165 x 235 mm format. More at https://biallykruk.pl/bookshop/bookshop/leon-xiv-illustrated biography

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