JUAN PABLO II

Through poetry, famous French poet Alain Saint-Saëns narrates Pope Saint John Paul II's extraordinary life as a model for Christians, but also as a man opened to dialog with other faiths: Judaism and Islam. This beautiful book is a very inspirational work for all readers in Spanish and English. The author, a Christian, also shows how John Paul II's spiritual guidance accompanied him all his life long. Twice his son Zinedine almost died and was considered lost. Alain Saint-Saëns prayed all night with invocation to Saint John Paul II, and his son survived.

As a Historian of Christianity, Alain Saint-Saëns wrote extensively about Christianity in Late Antiquity (Césaire d'Arles et les Juifs au VIème Siècle après J-C); Early Modern Period (La nostalgie du désert. L'idéal érémitique en Castille au Siècle d'Or; Valets de Dieu, Suppôts du Diable. Ermites d'Espagne à l'Époque Moderne; Art and Faith in Tridentine Spain). Very much attached to the interfaith dialog as well, Alain Saint-Saëns as a playwright imagined Karol Wojtyla talking to a Jewish Rabbi in his play, The Wagon. On the Way to Auschwitz. As a novelist, the author approaches Christianity Islam dialogue in his novel, Aisha.