Saints' lives for children

Once Upon a Time Saints
by Ethel Pochocki

These stories, the author explains, are meant to show human and lovable people whose mysterious passion for God led them into preposterous escapades. With an eye on the taste of a child for concrete detail and no apologies for the embroidery of legend, each tale, in a style akin to fairy-tale, sets forth the unique qualities of these wonderful saints.

Saints included:

St Alice (Adelaide of Burgundy)	St Ambrose of Milan	St Anne	St Barbara
St Barnaby of Compiegne	St Benedict the Black (of San Fradello)	St Christopher	St Clement I
St Comgall	St David of Wales	St Dorothea	St Edward the Confessor
St Elizabeth of Portugal	St Felix I	St Genevieve	St Hubert of Liege

Ages: 5+

Paperback, 96 pages

More Once Upon a Time Saints
by Ethel Pochocki

Here are yet more of "those human and lovable people whose mysterious passion for God led them into preposterous escapades." Story-teller Ethel Pochocki follows up her book Once Upon a Time Saints and presents another collection of wildly distinctive saints - from Hyacinth to Zita to Longinus to Kentigern - and readers will again be charmed by the vivid immediacy of their settings. We find out what very real people they were, these saints who lived and breathed in a wold as hard, as wet, as hot, as enticing and as changeful as our own. Yet their heroism is all their own. Ethel Pochocki leads us through their adventures, joys and sorrows to the truly happy ending each one gained.

Saints included

St Hyacinth	St Joan Delanoue	St Joseph of Arimathea	St Kentigern
St Longinus	St Martha	St Melangell	St Moses the Black
St Nicolas Postgate	St Pharaildis	St Rigobert	St Servulus
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus	St Simeon	St Swithin	St Zita
St Adauctus

Ages: 5 +

Paperback, size 8.4" x 7", 93 pages

Around the Year Once Upon Time
by Ethel Pochocki

Ethel Pochocki, whimsically and unforgettably, presents a new set of  heavenly friends to readers young and old in this third collection of Once Upon A Time Saints stories. Beginning in the dark of December, the start of the Church Year, there are stories and poems for each month, all bursting with saintly—not to mention angelic—deeds and happenings. Each tale or verse—whether of mystical apparitions in a tiny Irish village or of friars who float in the air or of entire countries single-handedly converted to Christianity—makes it quite plain that heaven doesn't keep to its place at all, but is happily determined to spill over into earthly life—here, there and . . . all around the year.

Once Upon A Time Saints                     More Once Upon A Time Saints

Ages: 10 +

Paperback, 212 pages

Flame of White
Life of St Pius X
by William Hunterman

A biography of St. Pius X for ages 12 and up. The lessons given us by the life of the only Saint-Pope in over 500 years are in his poverty, charity and burning zeal for souls that should animate all of us. The purpose of this biography is to widen the circle of boys and girls, men and women who know him better and love him more.

Hardcover, size 8.25" x 5.75", 269 pages

Our Friends the Saints 
St. Joseph "Carry-Me-Along" Board Book
by George Brundage

Catholic children are introduced to fourteen of the most recognized and beloved Saints. Among the features of this title are:

• an integrated carry handle ideal for small hands
• vibrant illustartions
• a short prayer to each of the fourteen featured Saints
• the feast day for each featured Saint in accordance with the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church
• Imprimatur thats ensures that the contents all comply with official Catholic Church doctrine

The following fourteen Saints are featured in this title:

• Our Lady, Queen of All Saints
• Saint Joseph
• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
• Saint Rita
• Saint John Bosco
• Saint Patrick
• Saint Joan of Arc
• Saint Teresa of Avila
• Saint Peter the Apostle
• Saint Maximilian Kolbe
• Saint Vincent de Paul
• Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
• Saint Anthony of Padua

The St. Joseph "Carry-Me-Along" Board Books are ideal books for young children. They are sturdy books that will stand up to wear and tear with full-color illustrations and clear, simple text.

Board book, size 8.3" x 6.1", 16 pages

Legends and Stories of Italy
by Amy Steedman

The stories of saints and sinners alike populate the pages of this unique book for children. Under the author's loving touch, these enchanting tales come alive with scenes of old Italy, from the poor but generous Saint Zita in her native Lucca to the captive Turkish Princess Stellante and her beloved Bartolo in prosperous Venice. Each of these widely varied characters must face their own struggle against the selfish desires of this world in order to achieve true happiness, both here and in the hereafter.

The water-colors by Katharine Cameron add infinite charm, and new illustrations enhance the captivating history of these legends and stories.

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 175 pages

A Story of St Christopher
by Brother Ernest, C.S.C.

Very little is known about St Christopher, but he probably lived during the 3rd century. According to legend he was a giant who decided to seek out the greatest king on earth and to serve him. After meeting a holy man who told him about Jesus, Christopher agreed to follow this man's advice and serve Jesus by carrying people across a dangerous river. Teading this story can encourage us to follow in the footsteps of St Christopher, who devoted his life to serving Jesus by helping others.

Level 1

Paperback, size 8" x 6", 30 pagess

A Story of Venerable Catherine McAuley
by Brother Ernest, C.S.C

Catherine was surrounded by many Protestants who tried to dissuade her from attending Mass. But Catherine stayed true to her Catholic faith and converted others by her prayers and kindness. In 1822, after receiving a large inheritance she used the money to build an orphanage and in 1831 she became the head of a new religious Order called the Sisters Of Mercy. reading this story can encourage us to follow in the footsteps of Ven. Catherine McAuley who remained steadfast in her faith and dedicated her life and wealth to help care for those in need.

Level 1

Paperback, size 8" x 6", 30 pages

A Story of St Bridget
by Brother Ernest, C.S.C.

Born in 453, this Irish saint Brigid of Ireland, started the first convent in Ireland. From early on she enjoyed helping others and this followed through her whole life.

Level 1

Paperback, 30 pages

Saint Nicholas: Patron Saint of Children
by Pierre and Germaine Noury

Second in the series of illustrated books by Pierre and Germaine Noury is the tale of a saint who is so widely popular that almost no one knows his true story…because they know him only as Santa Claus.

But long before he was known as the Christmas gift-bringer, St. Nicholas was greatly beloved--in life, for his kindness and generosity--and afterward, for his great miracles, which soon gained him the title Nicholas the Wonderworker. Once nearly every seaport in Christendom featured a church dedicated to him, and he remains one of the most revered saints in the Eastern Church. And did you know that even to this day, a miraculous fluid called manna still flows from his bones???

Now in this wonderfully illustrated book your family can learn some of the stories of the amazing miracles attributed to the great St Nick!

Other titles in this series include: The Blessed Virgin: Mary our Mother and Saint Francis of Assisi: the Little Poor Man.

Hardcover, size 8.5" x 11", 36 pages

The Book of Saints and Heroes
by Andrew and Lenora Lang

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:

The First Hermits (St Paul the Hermit & St. Anthony of the Desert)	The Roses from Paradise (St Dorothea)	The Saint with the Lion (St Jerome)	Synesius, the Ostrich Hunter (St Synesius)	The Struggles of St Augustine (St Augustine of Hippo)
Germanus the Governor (St Germanus of Auxerre)	Malchus the Monk	The Saint on the Pillar	The Apostle of Northumbria	St Columba of Iona
Brendan the Sailor	The Charm Queller	Dunstan the Friend of Kings	St Margaret of Scotland	St Elizabeth of Hungary
Saint and King	The Preacher to the Birds	Richard the Bishop	Colette	The Apostle of the Japanese
The Servant of the Poor	The Founder of Hospitals	The Patron Saint of England

Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 342 pages

Archer Saint
A Story of St Hubert of Liege
by Brother Ernest, C.S.C.

Born in 657, this young boy loved riding and hunting especially stag and deer hunting. Here was a young boy who someday would be a great leader in the church but during his youth, this was the farthest thing from his mind.

Level 2

Paperback, size 9" x 6", 90 pages

A Story of St Cyprian
by Brother Ernest, C.S.C

Cyprian was born in Africa around the year 200. His excellence at public speaking allowed him to become a very successful lawyer.But fame and fortune did not make him happy.After learning about Jesus he was batized into the Catholic faith. Cyprian became a priest and then became the Bishop f Carthage. Reading this story can encourage us to follow in the footsteps of St Cyprian who spoke out for th epoor and encouraged all to remain true to the faith.

Level 1

Paperback, size 8" x 6", 30 pages

Little Nellie of Holy God
1903-1908
by Sr. Mary Dominic, R.G.S.

Booklet, size  8" x 6", 32 pages

St Ignatius of Loyola
by F. A. Forbes

The Soldier of Christ

The founder of the Jesuits, Saint Ignatius of Loyola was one of the most startling and imposing saints in the history of the Church. Born in 1491 to Spanish nobility, he spent his youth as a courtier, focused on worldly things like his appearance and gaining temporal glory. He described himself later as a manifold sinner. Eventually, he became a soldier in the Spanish army.

In 1521, at age 30, his life conversion struck: hit by a cannonball, he was forced into a convalescence of several months. To spend the time, he read; when he found the romantic and knightly novels he requested were not available, he read the lives of the saints and of Christ. His heart was stirred to repentance and imitation of the saints, and he began to compare his dreams for his life: serving the king and wooing a particular woman of the king's court or serving God and imitating the penances and fasts of the saints. The former left him sad and dissatisfied, and the latter left him peaceful and joyful: thus he knew what was the way, and this became the foundation of his method of discernment.

After his recovery, Ignatius was a new man. After confessing and vowing his life to Our Lady, he lived in a cave for a time and performed exceeding fasts and penances. Throughout this period, he was tempted by suicide and was filled with scruples, but he persevered and gained the grace of visions and discernment of spirits. He recorded the first elements of his famous Spiritual Exercises, made a harrowing pilgrimage to the Holy Land (only to be turned away), and studied at universities for 11 years. Eventually, he gathered six companions and formed the basis of the Society of Jesus, that monumental, titanic, and legitimately world-shifting religious order which owes its existence to him. After ordination, Ignatius took 18 months to prepare for his first Holy Mass. When at last the society was formalized, the pope took a great liking to them. Among their constitutions were the revolutionary rule not to accept ecclesiastical dignities and the extremely long period of probation. Ignatius guided the order through massive growth spurts and trials, ultimately succumbing to illness in utter peace, passing quietly into eternity.

This life of the soldier saint will inspire you and invigorate your faith life. No one is too far gone to turn back to God, and, if his own life experience is any indication, this biography will work wonders in stoking your desire to become a saint!

Paperback, size 7" x 4.25", 114 pages, 4 Illus, Impr.

Saint Vincent de Paul
by F. A. Forbes

The Apostle of Charity

St. Vincent de Paul, called the Apostle of Charity, stands as a monument in the life of the Church. He transformed utterly how both the Church and the secular world (copycatting the former) undertook the infrastructure of organized charitable action. Far from doing social work for social work's sake, St. Vincent de Paul sought out the good of souls both temporally and spiritually, as his massive labor and remarkable life attest.

Born to a peasant family, he was ordained in 1600. In 1605, he was captured and taken to Tunis by Turkish pirates as a slave, but he escaped after two years, having converted his master. Later he became the almoner of the French queen, Marguerite of Valois. He performed peasant missions for ten years, eventually gathering a group of priests to go with him; these conferences also involved performing charitable works. Much of his work included going to the convicts in French galleys—ships for transporting prisoners. The prisoners endured squalid conditions, and Vincent took care of both their temporal and spiritual needs, converting many. In time, he founded the Vincentians (known as Lazarists in Vincent's time), a society of priests who gave conferences and spiritual retreats for seminarians, priests, and the laity, especially in the poor peasant regions of the country. As part of his work, he also established seminaries all over France, eventually taking control of 11 seminaries!

He also founded his Daughters of Charity in 1629, mainly for noblewomen who would care for the poor and destitute. Eventually, young women were enlisted to form a legitimate religious order, who would visit prisons, hospitals, and slums to care for tens of thousands of poor, including eventually 4,000 orphan children; 40,000 poor of Paris; and thousands more in rural, war-torn regions of France. The works of charity these sisters undertook included especially soup kitchens and providing some useful means of work for the poor. St. Vincent's concern also reached the poor slaves of Barbary, whose fate he once had shared, and his missions cared for or ransomed up to 30,000 of them. Finally, St. Vincent's works of charity also included occupying himself with caring for Irish and English Catholic refugees and burying many dead from the 30 Years War.
 

Never neglecting his duties as a priest only for social work, he also undertook to fight the Jansenist heresy in France, ultimately inducing 85 bishops to convince the pope to condemn the errors of the Jansenists. He also acted as spiritual director to many congregations of religious women and sent missionary priests to go to the Roman countryside, Genoa, Savoy, the Piedmont, Ireland, Scotland, the Hebrides, Poland, and even Madagascar. His prayer, modesty, humility, piety, and asceticism were intense and marked despite all his manifold exertions.

Such was the soul of the Apostle of Charity, St. Vincent de Paul. This is the story of the great saint who put charity onto an organized basis and thus transformed not only Paris but the history of the Catholic Church and the world, its imitator.

Paperback, size7" x 4.25", 120 pages, Impr, 5 Illus

The King's Prey
Saint Dymphna of Ireland
by Susan Peek

An insane king. His fleeing daughter. Estranged brothers, with a scarred past, risking everything to save her from a fate worse than death. Toss in a holy priest and a lovable wolfhound, and get ready for a wild race across Ireland. Will Dymphna escape her deranged father and his sinful desires? For the first time ever, the story of Saint Dymphna is brought to life in this dramatic novel for adults and older teens. With raw adventure, gripping action, and even humor in the midst of dark mental turmoil, Susan Peek's newest novel will introduce you to a saint you will love forever! Teenage girls will see that Dymphna was just like them, a real girl, while young men will thrill at the heart-stopping danger and meet heroes they can easily relate to. If ever a Heavenly friend was needed in these times of widespread depression and emotional instability, this forgotten Irish saint is it!

Paperback, size 9" x 6", 316 pages

The Saints Chronicles Vol 1
by Mark McNabb

The Saints Chronicles bring vividly to life the stories of courageous Christians from the earliest days of Christianity to modern times. All five volumes of this Graphic Novel Series are packed with engaging texts and dramatic images that captivate and inspire readers of all ages.

In this first volume, you'll dive into the life of Christianity's boldest heroes of the Faith, including:

• St. Patrick, a young boy captured by Irish pirates and made a slave, only to escape and later return to convert all of pagan Ireland to Christianity.
• St. Jerome Emiliani, the bold soldier who became a Christian while imprisoned in a dark dungeon, escaping to join the priesthood and lead a life in service to the poor and suffering.
• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the wealthy New York widow who made vows of poverty and chastity, creating the very first Catholic schools in the United States and becoming America's first saint.
• St. Henry Morse, the Catholic convert who became a priest and bravely spread the Faith in Protestant England, only to be arrested and martyred for being Catholic.
• St. Joan of Arc, the thirteen-year-old-girl who God called to rally a demoralized army and lead the Catholic French to an overwhelming defeat of the English.

The stirring adventures of these brave Christian souls remind us that God has in mind for each of us a unique mission, worthy of all our imagination and all our daring.

Appealing to readers of all ages, these five Graphic Novels will enhance literacy and promote content retention while introducing Catholic saints in a form that can be enjoyed again and again.

Paperback, size 10.25" x 6.5", 120 pages