Title: Revelations and Visions: Discerning the True and the Certain From the False or the Doubtful  Author: Augustin Poulain, S.J.  ISBN:0-8189-0793-2  Paperback: xv + 134 pp.  Price: $9.95 + shipping  To order call:  1 800-343-ALBA (2522)  Please have your Master,  Visa or American Express Card ready. To order online click here.		Revelations and Visions, an often cited classic well-known to scholars of the spiritual life, was written by Augustin Poulain, S.J. a century ago to set forth in a very clear way the guidelines the Church uses to discern the truth and reject the false when it comes to visions and private revelations. Making extensive use of Scripture, the writings of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila, his work is concrete, practical, down-to-earth and witty. The case histories he presents read as if they took place only yesterday. Here, for the first time, his insights - endorsed by Pope St. Pius X and edited with an introduction by Frank Sadowski, SSP - are made available to a wide audience.

 

Augustin Francois Poulain was born in 1836 in France and entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1858. He had a long career as a priest, spiritual director, librarian, mathematician, author and scholar. After forty years of research and personal experience, he wrote his masterpiece, The Graces of Interior Prayer, from which Revelations and Visions is excerpted. Father Poulain died in 1919.  Reviews "It is with real satisfaction that I have read your Reverence's book, The Graces of Interior Prayer. I cannot resist the desire to congratulate you with all my heart for this fine and useful work. Directors of souls and the masters of the spiritual life will draw from it abundant supplies of enlightenment and the counsels necessary to enable them to solve the many complicated questions that they will encounter. What pleases me most is the simplicity, the clarity and the precision of your exposition, and still more the solidity of the teaching." --+A. Cardinal Steinhuber , Rome, March 16, 1904 "The Holy Father [Pope Pius X] has confided to me the agreeable mission of conveying to you his warm and sincere thanks for your remarkable treatise on Mystical Theology entitled: The Graces of Interior Prayer, the fifth edition of which you have just published. His Holiness is rejoiced at the fruitful result of your long years of study, spent in observing the ways of grace in souls aspiring to perfection. He is happy to see that now, thanks to you, directors of consciences possess a work of great worth and high utility. You not only rely upon the incontestable doctrine of the old masters who have treated this very difficult subject, but you present these teachings, which constitute your authorities, under the form that our age requires. While wishing your work a great success and abundant spiritual fruits, His Holiness grants to your Paternity the Apostolic Benediction. In acquainting you with this favor, I am happy to assure you of my own sentiments of high esteem." --Cardinal Merry Del Val, Rome, April 2, 1907   Top of Page