Philip Neri The Fire of Joy

"St. Philip Neri is one of the more intriguing figures of the Catholic Reformation. Even if he would benefit from being treated somewhat less hagiographically than he is in Paul Turks' book, he deserves a study in English. A Florentine by birth and a Roman by adoption, an admirer of Savonarola and as renowned for his own austere life as he was for his eccentricity and his practical jokes, Philip Neri launched the movement later to be known as the Congregation of the Oratory, shortly after his ordination in Rome in 1551."Turks, Paul is the author of 'Philip Neri The Fire of Joy' with ISBN 9780818907487 and ISBN 0818907487.