Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“antonio gallonio”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “antonio gallonio”
Skip side bar filters

  • Treatise on the Instruments of Martyrdom

    How the pagans tortured the early Christians, illustrated with the forty-seven copperplates of 1591

    by Antonio Gallonio ...
    Translated by Peregrine Oakstead ...
    This edition includes:• New English translation in a modernized edition• Critical introduction• 47 illustrationsTake the instruments of martyrdom one by one — the cross, the stake, the wheel, the pulley, the press, the equuleus, the iron bed, the cauldron, the gridiron — and ask of each what it was, how it was built, and what it did to a human body. That is the remarkable project Antonio Gallonio ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Torture Of The Christian Martyrs

    by Gallonio,Antonio ...
    The legendary treatise on how so many died at the hands of Roman and Pagan aggressors. In good Catholic fashion, the work is heavy on the descriptions, showing who and how and where they died, with attention paid to each and every sin, in graphic detail... with loads of illustrations. Also included: the odd mention of positive things one or another of the martyrs might have done. Not so much as ... Read more

    $1.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Torture of the Christian Martyrs

    by Antonio Gallonio ...
    The legendary treatise on how so many died at the hands of Roman and Pagan aggressors. In good Catholic fashion, the work is heavy on the descriptions, showing who and how and where they died, with attention paid to each and every sin, in graphic detail... with loads of illustrations.Also included: the odd mention of positive things one or another of the martyrs might have done. Not so much as you ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Life of St. Philip Neri

    by Antonio Gallonio ...
    St. Philip Neri is one of the best-loved saints of all time. Known as the ಘApostle of Rome', he set in motion a great renewal of Christianity at the heart of the Church's capital city during the 1500's. St. Philip's foundation of the Oratory began by stimulating young laymen to conversion, prayer, and apostolic works, and through them gradually brought about a reform of the entire Church, at all ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The History of Torture

    by Brian Innes ...
    Series series Crime & Punishment
    The History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day. The book explains the tools and techniques of torture, from the first use of the rack in Ancient Greece to the use of modern drugs to elicit confessions. The book also details the fight against torture through the work of international campaigners such as Amnesty International. A subject ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Book of Pain

    Torture and Punishment Through History

    by Mark P Donnelly, Daniel Diehl ...
    For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of torture appears to us today, for at least 3,000 years it formed part of most legal codes throughout Europe and the Far East. The Big Book of Pain is an ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japan's Gestapo

    Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia

    by Mark Felton ...
    From the author of Children of the Camps, a look at the disturbing activities of the Kempeitai, Japan's feared military and secret police.The book opens by explaining the origins, organization, and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. Author Mark Felton reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks that extorted huge ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fifty Shades Of Grey

    Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

    by E L James ...
    Series Book 1 - Fifty Shades of Grey Series
    "And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England

    by A. M. Sellar ...
    "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England," also known as "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum," is an ancient historical work written by the Venerable Bede, an Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar. Bede completed the book in 731 AD, and it is considered one of the most important sources of early English history.The book covers the history of the Christian Church in England, starting with the Roman ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lives of the Saints

    II

    by S. Baring-Gould ...
    Revised with Introduction and Additional Lives of English Martyrs, Cornish and Welsh Saints, and a full Index to the Entire Work The Lives of the Saints is a sixteen-volume collection of lives of the saints by Sabine Baring-Gould, first published between 1872 and 1877 by John Hodges, of London, and later republished in Edinburgh in 1914. The volumes are arranged according to the month of each ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives of the Saints

    by S. Baring-Gould ...
    Revised with Introduction and Additional Lives of English Martyrs, Cornish and Welsh Saints: Lives of the Saints, which I have begun, is an undertaking, of whose difficulty few can have any idea. Let it be remembered, that there were Saints in every century, for eighteen hundred years; that their Acts are interwoven with the profane history of their times, and that the history, not of one nation ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • St. Bernard of Clairvaux

    Oracle of the Twelfth Century

    by Abbe Theodore Ratisbonne ...
    Abbot; Confessor; Doctor of the Church (1091-1153). In all history no other man so dominated his times and influenced its people. He prophesied; cast out devils; worked miracles; destroyed heresy; single-handedly healed a schism; launched a crusade; advised popes; guided councils (6); ended a pogrom; accomplished every mission given him--yet was always sickly; took no joy in the world or pride in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus