GREAT MOMENTS
IN CATHOLIC HISTORY
Fr. Jacques
Monet, S.J.
Published by The Catholic Register 67 Bond Street Toronto, Ontario © The Catholic Register, 1983
Permission graciously granted by Father Monet for this to be
published here 2003
Contents
00 Preface: The Creative Hand of God
02
The
Great Fall of Jerusalem
03
The
Martyrdom of St. Ignatius
04
The
Battle of the Milvian Bridge
06
The
Travels of St. Columban
07
The
Way of Santiago of Compostela
10
The
Opening of the Sorbonne
11
St.
Catherine of Siena and the Pope
12
Michelangelo
Paints the Sistine Ceiling
13
The
Martyrdom of Edmund Campion
14
Matteo
Ricci's Chinese Adventure
15
Mozart's
Music for the Church
16
The
Return of Pope Pius VII
18
Leo
XIII Issues Rerum Novarum
19
Paul
VI at the United Nations
Father Jacques Monet, S.J., the President of Regis College, Toronto, is one of Canada's leading historians.
Father Monet has written numerous scholarly articles in both English and French, and has contributed entries in the dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Encyclopedia Britannica. His books include The Last Cannon Shot, A Study of French Canadian Nationalism, The Canadian Crown, and La Premiere Revolution Tranquille.
He has also been on-camera narrator on CBC TV on several programs, and authored sixteen lectures on the lives of Canada's prime ministers which were aired in French on Radio-Canada in 1982.
Father Monet has taught at Saint Mary's University High School in Halifax. Loyola College in Montreal, the University of Toronto, and from 1969 to 1982 at the University of Ottawa. In 1982 he was installed as President of Regis College.
A native of Saint-Jean, Quebec, Father Monet entered the Society of Jesus in 1949 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He received the Ph.D. in history from the University of Toronto in 1964.
Father Monet's many honors include Her Majesty's Jubilee Gold Medal (1977), the Governor General's Gold Medal (1978), and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (1982). He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1978.