The Son of Man Daniel-Rops Based on true events and

Based on true events and individuals in the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics in England

states in the Introduction: “Dominican saints characteristically labor without toil

Serving as chancellor of England (second only to the king in power and authority)

the sharpness of his insights

The Son of Man Daniel-Rops Based on true events andBy Franois Mauriac In his 1937 The Life of Jesus, Franois Mauriac set out to show the meaning of Christ for an ordinary Christian, an ordinary layman, strongly bound up with the things of the world. Similarly motivated, The Son of Man meditates upon Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, as the sole remedy for the anguish and suffering of life. Contemplating Christs childhood, his hidden years in Nazareth, his passion, death, and resurrection, Mauriac