Christendom in Dublin
by G. K. Chesterton
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THERE is nothing that I enjoy so much, in the ordinary way, as taking a ticket and a train and a boat and going to Dublin. There is much in Dublin of what has always been said about Paris. It is an indescribable liveliness and lucidity; as if it were morally what it is certainly not materially; the ville lumiere; the legendary place in the sun. But there is something else to understand, about the extraordinary experience of the thing called a Eucharistic Congress. It was not merely this; show more perhaps it was not mainly this. It was something altogether different and astonishing; though it doubtless included this. I did not merely take a ticket for Holyhead, or a boat for the port of Dublin. I did truly take a ticket for Christendom. I took a train and a boat that brought me to the ancient, and perhaps long-undiscovered, island that was once called Christendom. For it did truly appear, as in a dream, that the island had grown large; and that I had landed on something larger than a continent. For Christendom is much larger than Europe. Even in the Middle Ages it was much larger than Europe. I am not arguing here about the claims of various sorts of Christians to inherit the full tradition of Christendom. I only say that to see even so much of Christendom in one place was like seeing a vision; like being taken to the top of a mountain and seeing all the kingdoms of the earth. If any bright wit from Portadown or Belfast retorts that the Devil, in the person of the Papal Legate, would naturally take me there, I am content to bow and smile. show lessTags
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England, in 1874. He began his education at St Paul's School, and later went on to study art at the Slade School, and literature at University College in London. Chesterton wrote a great deal of poetry, as well as works of social and literary criticism. Among his most notable books are The Man Who Was show more Thursday, a metaphysical thriller, and The Everlasting Man, a history of humankind's spiritual progress. After Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922, he wrote mainly on religious topics. Chesterton is most known for creating the famous priest-detective character Father Brown, who first appeared in "The Innocence of Father Brown." Chesterton died in 1936 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1936
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