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An instant best-seller in Italy, Vita di Ges&#249Cristo (&quotLif of Jesus
Christ&quot was also highly praised by Catholic peer journals worldwide and
has never since been out of print. The author, Giuseppe Ricciotti, was an
archaeologist and Biblical scholar. After his seminary studies and completing
mandatory military service, he was ordained a priest in 1913 and continued his
studies at the University of Rome. During World War I he served as a military
chaplain, volunteering for service at the front lines, for which he was later
awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valor. After the war, he resumed his studies
and graduated in 1919 with a degree in Biblical Studies. During World War II,
he took in many refugees at the congregation's Motherhouse the Basilica of
St. Peter in Chains. Excerpt from the Author's Preface: I have studied the
ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the documents and not
the flimsiness of any interpretation presently the fashion. The first vague notion
of writing this book came to me many years ago in extraordinary
circumstances. I had been carried to a field hospital set up in a wood of fir
trees in a valley among the Alps. For some time, I hovered between life and
death awaiting my fate, it suddenly came to me that if I should live, I might
write a life of Christ his Gospel, in fact, was on the straw mattress beside me.
The thought never left me it became a kind of spiritual necessity. I have
studied the ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the
documents and not the flimsiness of any interpretation presently the fashion. I
have even dared to imitate the famous &#8220dipassionateness&#8221of the
canonical Evangelists, who have neither an exclamation of joy when Jesus is
born nor a word of lament when he dies. It has been my intention, then, to
write a critical work.