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Free Download Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania 1644-1657 (Refo500 Academic Studies) By Gabor Karman
2020 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 3525540795 | PDF | 4 MB
‘Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania’ is a survey of the changing role the confessional element played in that country’s foreign policy. Though its rulers consistently supported the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years’ War, this East Central European principality has traditionally been understood as a counterexample to the confessionalisation thesis. Here, the evolution of the foreign policy of Princes Gyorgy RAkczi I and Gyorgy RAkczi II is presented alongside the argumentation they used to justify their political action before and after the Peace of Westphalia. This dual focus makes it possible to identify the changes in the function of confessional cooperation in the princes’ policies, as it lost its primary position and was transformed from an end in itself into a complementary means of justification. This book charts Transylvania’s foreign policy by examining its princes’ interactions with three main sets of contacts: leaders in the Kingdom of Hungary, protagonists of the ongoing crisis in Poland-Lithuania, and members of Western European Protestant networks. Based on a large number of published and archival sources, this book offers a novel interpretation of mid-seventeenth-century Transylvanian foreign policy and its intellectual background.

Free Download My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue By Samuel Chamberlain
1997 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0876111568 | PDF | 57 MB
Samuel Chamberlain’s My Confession is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier’s adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain’s wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color. If you enjoyed the Chamberlain paintings assembled in Sam Chamberlain’s Mexican War:The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings, you will be fascinated by the tale in My Confession that goes with it and beyond it into Chamberlain’s adventures with the scalp-hunting Glanton Gang (the story that Cormac McCarthy used as the basis for his celebrated novel Blood Meridian).My Confession is the story of Samuel Chamberlain, a Boston boy who hoped to be a theological student but could not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to his "Confession," he seduced countless women in the U.S. and Mexico, never missed a fandango, fought gallantly against Mexican guerrillas, and rode with the First Dragoons into the Battle of Buena Vista. His remarkable story is pure melodrama, but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true.

Free Download 7 Secrets of Confession By Vinny Flynn
2013 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 1884479464 | EPUB | 1 MB
Flynn, author of the best-seller,7 Secrets of the Eucharist (200,000 copies sold), presents a similar approach to the Sacrament of Confession in this new book that reveals 7 key secrets or hidden truths about the great spiritual beauty, power and depth of Confession.The understanding that many Catholics have of the Sacrament of Confession is so limited and narrow in its focus that it keeps them from discovering the real beauty and value of this Sacrament beauty and value that even a young child can understand if it s presented properly. For too many Catholics, Confession is just a means to an end: cleaning us up from sin so we can receive Communion. But, as Pope Francis tells us, Confession is much more than "going to the dry cleaner." It s "an encounter with Jesus, who waits for us as we are.In his years of speaking all over North America, Flynn saw that many Catholics have this limited appreciation of Confession, and the urgent need for clear teaching about this great Sacrament. If you have not yet experienced Confession as a wonderful, personal encounter with Christ; if you do not yet look forward to going to Confession with the same eagerness and expectation with which you receive Holy Communion, this book is for you. It will be a whole new way of going to Confession, inviting you to begin an exciting personal journey to healing and holiness. It may change your life.

Free Download Ultramarathon Man (Revised): Confession of an All-Night Runner (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C824ZNPT | 2023 | 7 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Dean Karnazes
Narrator: Michael Braun
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner helped introduce the world to ultramarathoning. Now, after three decades of running ultramarathons across the globe, Dean Karnazes is still going strong. This updated and revised edition includes an afterword full of the lessons he’s picked up along the way. He gives personal details on the essential pillars of health-fitness, diet, and sleep. What does he eat, what supplements does he take, and what kind of mattress does he sleep on?

Free Download The Confession of Saint Patrick By St. Patrick; John Skinner; John O’Donohue
1998 | 111 Pages | ISBN: 0385491638 | EPUB | 1 MB
The autobiography of one of the most popular saints in history, now available in a new translation.Beyond being recognized as the patron saint of Ireland (perhaps for having chased some nonexistent snakes off the Emerald Isle), little else is popularly known about Saint Patrick.And yet, Patrick left behind a unique document, hisConfession,which tells us much about both his life and his beliefs.This autobiography, originally written in the fifth century, and short by modern standards, is nonetheless a work that fascinates with its glimpse into the life of an intriguing man, and inspires with its testament of faith.Here, in this new edition from internationally acclaimed translator John Skinner, the character of Patrick, his era, and his world vividly come to life.Also included in this volume is the only other document known to have been written by Patrick, a letter he wrote to the soldiers of Coroticus–also Christians–who had raided parts of Ireland and taken away prisoners who were then sold into slavery.This letter is a wonderful demonstration of Patrick’s rhetorical fire.Quite irate, Patrick harangues his fellow Christians, and the results are every bit as autobiographically revealing as theConfession.John O’Donohue, author ofAnam Cara,provides an insightful foreword that re-creates the unique spirituality of Patrick and of the Irish people, and shows how it applies to our lives today.

Free Download St. Patrick: His Confession and Other Works By St. Patrick; Neil Xavier O’Donoghue
2009 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0899421792 | EPUB | 1 MB
Discover St. Patrick’s relevance for the 21st century through hisConfessio and Letter to Coroticus andthe beautiful discourse of Pope JohnPaul II given in Drogheda. With fullerappreciation, pray with St. Patrick in anewly composed Novena based onearly Irish source.