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Louis de Wohl has written over 50 books. Besides The Quiet Light: A Novel About Thomas Aquinas, we have as a group read The Restless Flame: A Novel about Saint Augustine and The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria. Have you read other books by Mr. de Wohl? How does The Quiet Light: A Novel About Thomas Aquinas compare to those you have read, and which is your favorite?

The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria Without a doubt. That novel forever changed the image I had of sixteenth-century Spain. It was a decisive work for me. When I was studying for a degree unlike my classmates. He was more interested in the seventeenth century than in the seventeenth century. This was because, like Mario Vargas Llosa, I wanted to know when things began to go wrong for Catholicism and, for me, the two key dates are 1648, which is the Peace of Westphalia, and 1688, that vile usurpation, wrongly called the Revolution, which put an end to the possibility that the future hegemonic country, England, would return to Catholicism. Thanks to Louis de Wohl I understood the greatness of my own country. It's sad that they had to tell me from the outside. In a similar vein was "El señor natural : la venturosa vida de Juan de Austria : de bastardo a Alteza" by László Passuth and, then there is "Jeromin" by Father Luis Coloma that Professor Manuel Alfonseca likes so much. In addition, thanks to Louis de Wohl I met Yussuf Nassi "the great Jew" whom I would later meet in by the always interesting Jesús Sánchez Adalid in his novel "The knight of Alcantara"El caballero de Alcántara (his daughter Grazia in the novel is very dear to me).

John wrote: "Besides The Quiet Light: A Novel About Thomas Aquinas, we have as a group read The Restless Flame: A Novel about Saint Augustine and The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria. Have you read other books by Mr. de Wohl?"

I have read only the two books by de Wohl we've read in this club.

In a very similar vein to "The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria" is the novel "The Diamond CastleEl castillo de diamante" by my much-admired Don Juan Manuel de Prada. Very similar to this "Anthony of Padua"San Antonio de Padua by a writer very similar to Louis de Wohl Jan Dobraczyński.

Very similar to "The Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria" but worse is "Lower the Walls of ViennaBajo las murallas de Viena: la historia de Juan Sobieski" by Jan Dobraczyński, to commemorate the Catholic victory of the Polish hussars against the Turks. There's a movie I'd like to see on this subject starring F. Murray Abraham and there's our friend Michael D. Greaney ´s book Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know

I think I read them all over the years. More historical fiction in tone which make them very readable.

Well, not 50, but all the saint stories in Catholic bookstores.

Sts. Joan, Ignatius, Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine, Augustine, Francis Xavier, Longinus, Helena; also Don Juan and King David.

I am also reading The Living Wood about St Helena and the Emperor Constantine

Jane wrote: "I am also reading The Living Wood about St Helena and the Emperor Constantine"

Very good novel although I liked this one better. "The Living Wood: A Novel about Saint Helena and the Emperor Constantine" is curiously the last novel I have read to Louis de Wohl.

Sandralena wrote: "I think I read them all over the years. More historical fiction in tone which make them very readable."

I still have to read "Saint Joan: The Girl Soldier" with Pamela Marcantel An Army of Angels by Pamela Marcantel and,Joan of Arc Mark Twain, I find it very difficult to beat these two novels of Saint Joan of Arc and, I miss the one of Saint Catherine of Siena and, not for lack of desireLay Siege to Heaven: A Novel About Saint Catherine of Siena

I've also read The Golden Thread, about St. Ignatius of Loyola. It was a few years ago ... I am not sure which one I like better overall, maybe The Golden Thread.

You have a good traste Kristi "Golden Thread" reminded me one of my favorite writers the finnish writer Mika Waltari. This book is more existentialist than other Louis de Wohl's book bebidas his main character Ulrich von Fleurer is very interesting. I recomend to you "Citadels of God" in case that you had not read prrviously Kristi this is about Saint Benedict but is a chronicle about the sixth century.