CIUDAD to - the Catholic Kingdom!

NOTABLE UPHOLDERS OF CIUDAD
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saner part of its faculty at the time, was constrained
unofficially to approve of Ciudad de Dios. As prac
tically all adverse criticism originated from the Sorbonne,
above fact should be especially noted.
Another great French University, that of Toulouse,
endorsed the publication of Grenier s "Compendium" by
issuing an official commendation of Ciudad in highest
terms of praise, which document was signed for the
faculty by Casemajon, Rabii, and J. Gisbert, S. J.,
Theo
logians, on Nov. 25, 1694.
In Volume III, The Transfixion, is given in full the
official approbation of the great University of Louvain,
to which we refer the reader. The high recommenda
tions contained therein, placing the CITY OF GOD
among the greatest books of the world, are repeated in
nearly all the above mentioned documents.
It was necessary to confine ourselves merely to the
dates and signatures of a few documents, because if
these and many others were quoted in full, it would be
necessary to add hundreds of pages to this volume. If
all the writings of eminent and learned men in Chris
tianity,
praising
the CITY OF GOD as the most won
derful, the most useful, the most interesting, the most re
liable book in the world, were to be printed in con
nection with this translation, this book would probably
have to be extended to one hundred volumes instead of
being restricted to four.
Why multiply recommendations ?
All adverse criticism you may see written or hear
expressed, is absolutely without foundation and mere
waste of time in our day. The past three centuries have
more closely scrutinized every line of Ciudad to find a
flaw than you can ever hope to do. And there was no
flaw to be found. Read and be convinced!
FISCAR MARISON.
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