Description: For so many people who were enduring the trauma of the years of drastic change after the Second Vatican Council, Michael Davies' books and lectures were like manna from heaven and uplifted and educated many lay people and clergy. In his research and exposition of the real facts on the liturgy and architecture, he shed a great deal of light on matters that many in high places preferred to keep hidden. This may well be his lasting legacy to the Church, the provision of books and papers that rallied the faithful in a time of unprecedented upheaval that could truly be called one of the dark ages of the Church.
The immensity of the man will only be fully appreciated in the years to come when his writings will be recognised as one of the springboards of the resurgence of the traditional liturgy and faith of the Church. For those who know him only by his name I hope that this biography will encourage them to search out his published works.Review Quotes:
Leo Darroch is to be congratulated for diligently opening up the treasures of Michael's attic-and the witness of his life-and for thereby inviting us today to imitate his passion for the Catholic faith-especially for her Sacred Liturgy.-Dom Alcuin Reid, Prior, Monastère Saint-Benoît, Brignoles, France
This biography of the great Michael Davies will be of great value to the younger generations of Catholics attached to the Traditional Mass, as a guide to his immense and influential body of work, and an introduction to the long and stormy period from the Council to the election of Pope Benedict XVI.-Dr Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales and president of Una Voce International
By means of his prolific writings, his promotion of the tremendous value of the Chartres Pilgrimage, his tireless traveling for Una Voce in all continents, his endless, patient negotiations with prelates both friendly (like the future Pope Benedict XVI) and ferociously hostile, his lecturing for the Roman Forum, and his overwhelming plenitude of Catholic hope he kept the Faith in the triumph of the Traditional Liturgy and the whole of the teaching of the Magisterium alive in all of us.-Dr John Rao, emeritus of St John's University, New York; Director of the Roman Forum; former chairman of Una Voce America