Thomas Howard

Cover art: Christ Giving Communion to the Apostles
(The Institution of the Eucharist), detail
Fra Angelico
From the Museo San Marco, Florence
Scala / Art Resource, N.Y.

Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum

© 1997 Ignatius Press, San Francisco
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-0-89870-608-6
Library of Congress catalogue card number 96-75716
Printed in the United States of America

To my daughter, Gallaudet,
and my son, Charles,
who, with my wife, Lovelace,
are my chief joys