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Life of Dominic Savio

By Venerable John Bosco.
"Let us leave a saint to write the life of a saint," is said to have been the exclamation of the Angelic Doctor St. Thomas Aquinas, when he entered the cell of his brother doctor, St. Bonaventure, and found him absorbed in writing the life of his spiritual father, St. Francis. The peculiar value of the present little book is that it may be said once more to present the spectacle of a saint writing the life of a saint. Only whereas in St. Bonaventure's case a son was writing the life of a father, in this case we have the unique example of a father writing the life of his spiritual son. The writer, the saintly Don Bosco, has already been declared Venerable, and the process for his Beatification is proceeding in Rome. - Preface.
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by Rev. O.R. Vassall-Phillips, C.SS.R.

Saint Gerard Majella lived between 1726 and 1755 and was an Italian lay-brother of the Redemptorist. He is the patron saint of children, unborn children, women in childbirth, mothers, expectant mothers, motherhood, the falsely-accused and good confessions.

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Englished and adapted by the Rev. Francis S. Laing.

Author: Pastrovicchi, Angelo.
Related Names: Laing, Francis S. b. 1880, tr.
Language(s): English
Published: St. Louis, B. Herder, 1918.
Subjects: Joseph, > Joseph, /of Cupertino, Saint, > Joseph, / of Cupertino, Saint, /1603-1663.
Physical Description: xiii, 135 p. : front., plates ; 20 cm.

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Saints of the month of February
Saints of the month of February.

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by Florence Mary CAPES (1845 - 1932)

Subject:
Biography & Autobiography, Christianity - Biographies

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Saint Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), was a Spanish colonist in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the city through her own private efforts. A lay member of the Dominican Order, she was the first person born in the Americas to be canonized by the Catholic Church. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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by ANONYMOUS

Subject:
Biography & Autobiography, Christianity - Biographies

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Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, T.O.S.F., (8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859), commonly known in English as St John Vianney, was a French parish priest who is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and as the patron saint of all priests. He is often referred to as the "Curé d'Ars". He became internationally notable for his priestly and pastoral work in his parish because of the radical spiritual transformation of the community and its surroundings. Catholics attribute this to his saintly life, mortification, his persevering ministry in the sacrament of confession, and his ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to Saint Philomena.

This short biography of this beloved saint was written before he was canonized in 1925. (Summary Adapted from Wikipedia)

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by Saint TERESA OF AVILA (1515 - 1582), translated by Rev. John DALTON (1814 - 1874)

Subject:
Biography & Autobiography, Christianity - Biographies

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Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, (March 28, 1515, at Gotarrendura (Ávila), Old Castile, Spain – October 4, 1582, at Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain) was a prominent Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with John of the Cross, a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. In 1970 she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

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by Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS (1542 - 1591), translated by David LEWIS (1814 - 1895)

Subject:
Christianity - Other

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The Ascent of Mount Carmel is one of the timeless classics of Christian contemplation, radical in its time and deeply influential in the world today. St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila worked together to reform the Carmelite Order in the Roman Catholic Church, in which he is honored as one of the Doctors of the Church. An active priest and teacher in his lifetime, this work is considered primary source material the training of Spiritual Directors, and an essential set of guidelines for all students of Revelation through Divine Love. ( Ed Humpal)

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by Clare of Assisi, Saint, Thomas of Celano, Cuthbert, Father O.S.F.C., François Dupuis, Charlotte Cornish Balfour.
Published 1910 by Longmans, Green, and Co. in New York, London, Bombay

Subjects:
Clare, -- of Assisi, Saint, -- 1194-1253 -- Legends.
Clare, -- of Assisi, Saint, -- 1194-1253.

228 p.

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translated from the French version (1563) of Francis Du Puis by Charlotte Balfour ; with an introduction by Father Cuthbert.

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by Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380; Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1861-1954.
Published 1905 by London, J.M. Dent & Co., New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.

Subjects:
Catherine, -- of Siena, Saint, -- 1347-1380.

377 p.

About:
Tr. and edited with an introduction by Vida D. Scudder.

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by Cepari, Virgilio, approximately 1563-1631; Goldie, Francis, 1836-1912, ed. and tr
Published 1891 New York : Benziger Brothers

Subjects:
Gonzaga, Luigi, -- Saint, -- 1568-1591.

516 p.

About:
New translation with notes from original sources, letters and documents edited by Father Francis Goldie.

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on the Life and Passion of Our Lord, and the Life of His Blessed Mother
by Birgitta, Saint, of Sweden, 1303-1373.
Published 1862 by D. & J. Sadlier & Co. New York.

Subjects:
Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion.
Jesus Christ.
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

166 p.

About the Book
Collection of ca 700 religious experiences which Saint Birgitta of Sweden had during prayer and which were afterwards written down in Latin and later translated in other languages. Translated from the Latin. To which is prefixed an essay on private revelations, by William H. Neligan.

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by Coleridge, Henry James, 1822-1893.
Published 1872 by Burns and Oates in London.

Subjects:
Francis Xavier, -- Saint, -- 1506-1552.
Francis Xavier, -- Saint, -- 1506-1552
Francisco -- de Javier.

2 volumes

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by Saint Bonaventure, Cardinal [translated by E. Gurney Salter].
Published 1904 by J.M. Dent in London, Toronto

Subjects:
Francis, -- of Assisi, Saint, -- 1182-1226 -- Legends.
Francis, -- of Assisi, Saint, -- 1182-1226.
Francois, -- d'Assise, saint, -- 1182-1226.

219 p.

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by Charles Warren Stoddard
Published 1896 by The Ave Maria in Notre Dame, Ind.

Subjects:
Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231

173 p.

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by Kinane, T. H. (Thomas H.)
Published 1884 by M.H. Gill and Son in Dublin, Ireland
7th Edition.

Subjects
Saints -- Prayers and devotions.
Joseph, -- Saint.
Saints.

xxii ; 442 pages

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Conceptions of Divine Love
by Santa Teresa de Jesus (Teresa of Avila )translated by Rev. John Dalton (1814 - 1874)

Conceptions of Divine Love was written in 1577. St. Teresa wrote this with the idea of explaining certain words found in the Book of Canticles. When her confessor read the title of her work, he ordered her to immediately burn it, which, of course, she did. But one of her nuns had copied the first seven chapters, which was then published in 1612. Here, Father John Dalton has translated only four of those chapters in 1852. (Summary by Ann Boulais)

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by Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226, Robinson, Paschal, 1870-

Published 1906 by Dolphin Press in Philadelphia, USA
xxxii, 208 pages

Subjects
Theology

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