A Bedside Book of Saints

' This is a unique little book that will not be confined to resting at your bedside. It will be a special joy and pleasure to read at bedtime, but also a treat at regular reading times. "And it might be a good plan when we sit by the fire to try and see in it the forms and faces of the Saints. Perhaps a spark or two of their ardour may come to light up and to warm our own dark and chilly lives." The author has tried to give the Bedside Book some of the coziness that it ought to have. He has tried to bring the Saints near, to bring them home, to bring them to the very bedside. It is comforting to know that in all the Saints there is quite enough of the human element to give a human interest to the story of their lives. The servants of God are very complete men and women. The cloisters and the hermitages, even in the most strenuous ages of monastic penance, were not peopled by phantoms, but by human beings like ourselves; speaking, thinking and feeling as do we; \'fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, and warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter.\' 1934 Imprimatur. Sewn signatures, 60 lb. cream paper, 160 pages, hardcover. '

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