The Four Rivers of Paradise Children's Literature the center from which radiate

the center from which radiate all her other glories

at times heroic

Spirit of Flame intro­duces this Spanish Carmelite friar

Paperback: 540pp

The Four Rivers of Paradise Children's Literature the center from which radiateBy Helen C. White The Four Rivers of Paradise tells of Hilary of Bordeaux, heir to a vast Aquitanian estate, loyal Roman citizen, and fledgling Christian. Anno Domini 404 is not an easy time to be any one of those things: Rome, in the city and across the empire, is in decline and disarray, preferring the idle amusements of intrigue and luxury to the strong pieties of verity, honor, and faith. As the fall of Rome at the hands of the barbarian Alaric,