Constantine’s Sword (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Carroll
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 4 to 2000
- Setting: Middle East and Europe
- Principal Characters: Saint Paul, Constantine I, Saint Augustine, Pope Pius XII
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Asia or Asians, Anti-Semitism, Christianity, Greek or Roman times, Holocaust, Jewish, Middle Ages, Jews and Gentiles, Middle East, Plague, First century, Inquisition
- Locales: Europe, Middle East
James Carroll constructs his long story of the Christian attitude towards Jews in eight parts, and the first, “The Cross at Auschwitz,” begins with the indignation many Jews expressed when, in 1984, a group of Carmelite nuns established a convent outside the gate at Auschwitz and prayed for the souls of the almost two million who died there and at Birkenau. As part of their efforts, the nuns planted in a nearby field the wooden cross from the papal altar in Kraków. Perhaps a 250,000 non-Jewish Poles died in the two camps, but Jews protested Christian prayers for the 1.5 million...
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