Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0898707838
Offers teachers and parents ideas and activities for stimulating spiritual growth and intellectual development in children through the study of seventeen biographies of holy men and women found in the Vision Books series.
Author : Francis X. Connolly
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898704310
This book tells the story of one of the Catholic Church's most lovable and loving saints, St. Philip Neri. Despite his wisdom and learning, he was a simple, childlike soul who never ceased, even in his old age, to make jokes and play with his many pets.
Author : Catherine Beebe
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898705188
St. Dominic led a life of excitement and adventure. As a boy he sold his books to feed the poor and offered himself as ransom for a prisoner. His greatest adventures came when he walked from town to town and stood fearlessly in the market to preach.
Author : Helen Walker Homan
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780898705171
A Vision Book about St. Francis and St. Clare, the two very popular saints of Assisi. Helen Homan has captured all the excitement and beauty of the lives of these saints from their childhood growing up together in Assisi to their profound conversion and lifelong influence�indeed centuries-long influence�on the whole world through their radical living of the Gospel and founding of two great religious orders, the Franciscans and the Poor Clares. Combining the stories of Francis and Clare in one volume makes for a book that will be of great interest to both boys and girls of a wide age span. Illustrated. Cover art by Chris Pelicano This book is now part of Renaissance Learning's Accelerated Reader program. Quizzes are currently available.
Author : August Derleth
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898707229
This Vision book for youth 9 - 15 years old tells the exciting, dramatic story of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the order he founded, the Society of Jesus. As a young man, Ignatius had dreams of an adventurous life as a soldier. His dreams, however, did not come true the way he had hoped. Seriously wounded in battle, the soldier Ignatius had a profound conversion to Christ during his period of healing and recovery. He abandoned a promising career in the military and dedicated the rest of his life to the service of Christ and the Church. This book tells of his starting one of the most influential orders in the church, and gives a graphic account of his adventures, his many encounters with popes, kings and emperors, and the great work the Jesuits did in spreading the Gospel. Illustrated
Author : Catherine Beebe
Publisher : Vision Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898704167
For 9-15 year olds.
Author : Lewis Morris
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Christian saints
ISBN :
Author : John M. Pontius
Publisher : CFI
Page : pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release :
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 9781462128433
Author : Albert F. Nevins
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780898705195
This new story from the popular Vision Books series of saints lives for youth 9-15 years old is about the inspiring life of the great missionary to the Far East, St. Francis Xavier. After his wartorn boyhood in Navarre, Francis Xavier went to the University of Paris, determined to have a good time. He was interested in sports and became broadjumping champion of his college, and did not pay much attention to his studies. At first he scoffed at this fellow student, Ignatius Loyola, a former soldier who wanted to win the world for God. But Ignatius showed him that true champions are a far more heroic breed - those who risk their all to win the world for God. Francis joined Ignatius' followers, and became one of the first members of the Society of Jesus.Francis Xavier was selected by Ignatius to do missionary work in India. To all sixteenth-century travelers, a voyage from Portugal to India meant months of deadly peril from storms, pirates, and diseases. But to Father Francis Xavier, it also meant a chance to win the Orient for Jesus Christ. This great saint's eagerness to spread the Word of God involved him with the pearl divers of the Indian coast, the natives of Malaya and the Spice Islands, the cannibals of Morotni and the hostile feudal lords of ancient Japan. This book captures the true spirit of a daring man who braved the many dangers of India and Japan in amazing adventures of courage and faith.
Author : Margaret Ann Hubbard
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681494167
This is the 30th title in the very popular, award-winning series of Vision Books on the lives of saints and heroes for youth 9 - 15 years old. 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.
