St Louis IX, King of France

Heroes of God's Church
by Rev P. Henry Matimore

The purpose of this beautiful book is to acquaint our children with biographies that will have some particular influence on the development of their characters. Each story has been planned as a real character training project, not merely as a reading lesson, to inspire admiration for faith and religious heroism.

"To accomplish this purpose, we have endeavored to stimulate interest in each saint by presenting him or her as a real human being who lived in a real world among real people and not as a super-being surrounded by miraculous wonders. We have tried to make the saints human, admirable, and lovable, and therefore imitate-able." (from the Foreword). Questions and Things to Do are found at the end of each story.

St Cecilia	St Sebastian of Rome	St Agnes of Rome	St Monica	St Patrick
St Columba	St Boniface	St Thomas of Canterbury	St Francis of Assisi	St Hedwig
St Hyacinth	St Louis IX	St Gertrude	St John Nepomucene	St Joan of Arc
St Thomas More	St Franis Xavier	St Aloysius	St Vincent de Paul	St Issac Jogues
St Gerard Majella	The Cure of Ars	St Theophane Venard	St Damien of Molokai	St Therese of Lisieux

Ages: 9 - 12

Paperback, size 8.2" x 5.8", 302 pages

St Louis and the Last Crusade
by Margaret Ann Hubbard

Louis IX of France, who took the throne in 1226, had one aim in life - to be a good king. Guided by the advice of his mother, he ruled well and was beloved by his people. At the age of twenty-eight he took the cross of the crusade and, with his army, set out for Egypt to defeat the Saracens, the most energetic enemies of the Holy Land.Instead, the Saracens charged to victory and imprisoned Louis, whose saintly conduct while in prison shamed his captors. Released, and after another miserable failure in Palestine, he returned to France broken in health but still fired with the desire to liberate the Holy Land.And so again, St. Louis led his men out from France, this time on the last crusade.

Paperback, 165 pages

Saint on Horseback
A Story of Saint Louis IX King of France
by Brother Louis Gazagne, C.S.C.

Born in 1214, the life of this saint is an example of an extraordinary life of a king. He spent his life helping his sunjects especially the poor and needy. Through his mother's teaching and guidence, he grew to be a great leader.

Level 2

Paperback, size 9" x 6", 90 pages

Saint Louis King of France
by Michel San Pietro

Noted for his justice, ability, charity and personal piety, Saint Louis became the arbiter of Europe. His zeal for the glory of God was incomparable in his private and public life, and in his direction of the great nation that God had given him to rule. This outstanding model for Christian statesmen was every inch a king and every inch a Saint.

Paperback, size 7" x 4.25", 96 pages, illustrations

The Young People's Book of Saints
Sitxty-three Saints of the Western Church from the First to the Twentieth Century
by Hugh Ross Williamson

Sixty-three Saints of the Western Church from the 1st to the 20th Century Saints are the men and women who best love Christ and His Church.

They may be kings or queens, statesmen or soldiers, scholars, visionaries, workmen or beggars. They teach us the real meaning of human history, and they show us how to live in any walk of life or set of circumstances. 

Many of these saints were martyrs, killed in periods of persecution. Others died trying to bring the knowledge of Christ to pagan tribes. Yet others built up the Church through their example and their teaching, but were never called upon to shed their blood.

St James the Greater	St Denis	St Helen	St Ambrose of Milan	St Germain
St Patrick	St Genevieve	St Brigid of Ireland	St Benedict	St Gregory the Great
St Columba of Iona	St Hermengild	St Isidore of Seville	St Aiden	St Audry (Etheldreda)
St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne	St Giles	St Boniface	St Eulogius of Cordova	St Swithun
St Wenceslaus	St Wolfgang	Sts Henry & Cunegund	St Edward the Confessor	St Benno of Meissen
St Gregory VII	St Norbert	St Bernard of Clairvaux	St Thomas of Canterbury	St Hildegard
St Hugh of Lincoln	St Francis of Assisi	St Dominic	St Anthony of Padua	St Elizabeth of Hungary
St Willebold	St Louis IX	St Albert the Great	St Thomas Aquinas	Bl Ramon Lull
St Elizabeth the Peacemaker	St Catherine of Siena	St John Nepomucene	St Bernadine of Siena	St Joan of Arc
St Jerome Emiliani	St Thomas More	St Ignatius Loyola	St John of God	St Francis Xavier
St Teresa of Avila	St Peter Canisius	Bl Edmund Campion	St Camillus de Lellis	St Vincent de Paul
St Alphonsus Liguori	St Benedict Joseph Labre	The Cure d'Ars	St Bernadette	St John Bosco
St Therese of Lisieux	St Pius X	St Frances Xavier Cabrini

Paperback, size 9" x 6", 239 pages