Fraternal Charity
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in Christian devotion and moral theology
- Catholic or Christian readers seeking short daily devotional material
- Readers of history and literature studying nineteenth-century French religious writing
Not a good fit for
- Researchers seeking systematic theological argument or scholarly annotation
- Secular readers with no interest in the religious exhortatory genre
Reading tips
- Read a short passage each day, chapter by chapter, and leave a few minutes afterward for quiet reflection or a written note.
- Begin with the table of contents to grasp the thematic outline, then read closely the passages relevant to one's own situation.
- Read alongside other public-domain devotional shorts to appreciate the features of nineteenth-century exhortatory prose.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Valuy, Benôit (1808–1869) was a French Catholic priest and writer. Public information about his life is limited, and later generations have known him mainly through his writings. His surviving works deal with themes of spiritual life and priestly formation; his representative work, Fraternal Charity, centers on brotherly love and is addressed to both religious and ordinary believers in a plain and earnest style that stresses exhortation and practice. His writing often touches on education and the spiritual life, reflecting the concerns of nineteenth-century French Catholic clergy in pastoral care and formation. Because sources are scarce, his specific experiences and the reach of his influence are difficult to examine in detail, and only one work is extant, yet it offers a glimpse of one aspect of Catholic spiritual literature of his time.
