The Book of Saints and Heroes - Softcover

Lang, Andrew

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9781933184951: The Book of Saints and Heroes

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ISBN 10: 1933184957 ISBN 13: 9781933184951

Publisher: Sophia Institute Press, 2012

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The first Christians to visit Europe and the British Isles met pagans who told tales of fairies, talking beasts, and other wonderful things. To these marvelous stories, they soon added new ones about the Christian saints.

Some were true, others improbable, and many simply fantastic. In the ones we include here, you'll meet the saint who spent seven Easters on a whale's back and the amiable lion who was St. Jerome's friend. You'll see St. George fight the dragon, and you'll read about the fierce wolf St. Francis of Assisi converted.

But many of these stories have in them scarcely a wave of the fairy wand. So you'll also find here true tales of great saints such as St. Louis of France, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Francis Xavier, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary — souls marked by courage, kindness, and piety.

These marvelous legends and exciting true stories of Christian saints and heroes will provide many hours of delightful reading to believers and non-believers alike!

Read the exciting stories of:

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St. Anthony

St. Augustine

St. Paul

St. Brendan

St. Colette

St. Columba

St. Elizabeth of Hungary

St. Cuthbert

St. Dorothea�

St. Dunstan�

St. Richard of Chichester�

St. Francis of Assisi�

St. Francis Xavier�

St. Louis IX�

St. Jerome

St. Margaret of Scotland�

St. George�

St. John of God�

St. Malchus�

St.Senan�

St. Simeon Stylites�

St. Vincent de Paul, and others.

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About the Author:

Born in Scotland in 1844, he studied at St. Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. Andrew Lang was a journalist, poet, editor, literary critic, and translator, historian, novelist, and author of books on religion. He and his wife wrote many fine collections of legends and stories. Lang spent much of his life in London, writing for the Morning Post and for the Daily News, and working as the literary editor of Longman's Magazine. He died in 1912.

Lenora Lang helped her husband Andrew to compile many fine collections of legends and stories. The Book of Saints and Heroes is one of the best of them.

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