Download or read book Barb of Fire written by Saint Elizabeth Of the Trinity and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Catez, a Carmelite nun born in the late nineteenth century, loved God with an astonishing intensity. Alan Bancroft has created new and vivid translations of twenty poems published soon after her death, and shows how these poems interlock with the prose of the celebrated Benedictine Abbot Marmion. Barb of Fire is a fascinating synthesis of Carmelite and Benedictine spirituality.