Les Saints Apôtres Pierre et Paul d'Après Saint Antoine de Padoue by P. Ferdinand Coiteux, O.F.M., and: S. Antoine de Padoue dans son Milieu et sa Mission Doctrinale by R. P. Ephrem Longpré, O.F.M. (review)

Book Reviews237 here published for the first time. These texts are discussed at length in the introduction to this second volume. Father Sagüés believes that the four Spanish texts antedate the Modus concionandi ; that Fray Diego is author of all of them; that each represents a stage in the evolution of his theory of sacred eloquence; that the Modus concionandi embodies his final, fully developed ideas on the subject; and that this same work—with some additions and amplifications—is a Latin translation of the Modo de predicar. The arguments advanced in support of these assertions are well developed and appear to be based on sound scholarsWp. The Modus concionandi itself needs no recommendation. In the past it often served as a seminary textbook and has long since earned for itself a place among the classics of its field. It has sometimes been published together with the Rhetorica Ecclesiastica of Luis de Granada with wWch it is often compared. Padre Estella's little book on preaching is not a profound work. It was written for preachers, by a preacher who knew well the needs of preachers. Its forty short chapters contain no abstract considerations or theoretical digressions. The distinctive virtues of the Modus concionandi are its brevity, correctness and practicality. Father Sagüés makes one regrettable omission in Ws otherwise complete work. He fails to include the Explanatio super Psalmum CXXXVI, which Fray Diego wrote as a companion work to the Modus concionandi. The Explanatio contains a series of sermons which take their theme from the verses of the Psalm, "Super ilumina Babylonis, etc." These sermons were designed to exemplify the homiletic principles laid down in the Modus. Padre Estella intended that these two complementary works be published together in a single volume. The one is incomplete without the other. Another reason why the Explanatio deserves to be reproduced is that it contains the only extant examples of Fray Diego's preaching. Each of Father Sagüés' two volumes is well indexed and the first contains an excellent bibliography of sacred oratory in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Cyprian J. Lynch, O.F.M. Academy of American Franciscan History, Washington, D. C. Les Saints Apôtres Pierre et Paul d'Après Saint Antoine de Padoue. Traduction et Adaptation De Sermons Où Le Docteur Évangélique Exalte La Saintité Sacerdotale Et L'Infallibilité Du Vicaire Du Christ. By P. Ferdinand Coiteux, O.F.M. (Montréal: Editions Franciscaines, 1951. Pp. xxiii-280.) 5. Antoine de Padoue dans son Milieu et sa Mission Doctrinale. By R. P. Ephrem Longpré, O.F.M. (Montréal: Editions Franciscaines, 1948. Pp. 46.) Father Ferdinand Coiteux, O.F.M. is well-known to the literary world as a Franciscan scholar and radio orator due to his many contributions and studies on the doctrines of Saint Anthony of Padua, recently (1946) elevated to the rank of a Doctor of the Church. Among a few of his former radio talks were his Praises of Mary according to St. Anthony of Padua; his Advent of Jesus to the Soul also according to St. Anthony; Ws Fostering of Vocations to the Priesthood; his Sanctity according to St. Francis of Assisi, etc. Continuing his researches into the original sermons of St. Anthony of Padua, Father Coiteux has recently published his latest work on the holy Apostles, Sts. Peter and Paul in the doctrine of St. Anthony of Padua. The 238Book Reviews book comprises twenty-eight addresses over the Canadian network given during the year 1950 and the beginning of 1951, on an average of two discourses a month. The author shows a deep knowledge of his matter and complements Ws assertions on the call, labor, prerogatives, martyrdom and glory of the two great Apostles of Rome with original texts from the Evangelical Doctor. The book is enhanced by an introduction from the pen of the Archbishop of Montreal, His Excellency, the Most Rev. Paul Emile Léger, S.S.; and by letters of appreciation from the Holy See, and dignitaries in the Franciscan Order. Father Coiteux' latest work measures up to the fame of Ws former contributions, and for that reason deserves wide publicity, especially for the...