
Résumé
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From his engagement in the ranks of the White Guard in 1919 to the choice he made in 1924 to live a monastic life, after a pilgrimage to Mount Athos, the life of Mgr Basile - sealed by his unshakeable faith and deep spirituality - was marked by History. After more than twenty years in the 'monastic republic', he left for Oxford to continue his patristic studies, then to Brussels, where he was appointed archbishop of the diocese of the Russian patriarchate in Belgium in 1960. Until his death in 1985, he never again set foot in his Russian homeland. The first part of the book is devoted to his youth. With rare sincerity, it tells the inside story of the Revolutionary years and the civil war. His sense of observation is quite extraordinary Solzhenitsyn showed discernment indeed when he used several of these pages on the events of 1917 with little or no modifications. His depiction is perhaps more true to life than that offered by many history books. Part two, his memoirs of the Church, begins thirty years later when the priest (1951), then the bishop (1959) began to take part in many international councils and congresses. His position as an 'exile' from the Russian Church made him a meticulous observer, sometimes hard, even critical, of the Orthodox instances. But the tireless and devoted servant of the Church unerringly said and wrote down paper exactly what he thought, whoever the persons concerned or the circumstances. Presented here for the first time in an unabridged French translation, the memoirs of Mgr Basile, covering little-known or misunderstood periods, will be precious, both in their secular and religious content, to those who wish to understand the history of Russia and her Church.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Krivocheine Balise |
Collection | L'histoire à vif |
Parution | 02/12/2010 |
Format | 14.7 x 21.7 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 570g |
EAN13 | 9782204092227 |
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