Mother Cabrini Frances Parkinson Keyes Vision Books In 1946, Francesca Cabrini was canonized as the first saint of the United States.  This Vision Book tells the exciting story of this missionary from Italy who came to America to spread the Faith.  She founded a new order of nuns, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, to teach the Faith and work with the poor in our …

Jeanne Marie Grunwell Encounter the Saints Series Experience the adventures and challenges, heroism and holiness of some of the greatest friends of God! Offers intermediate readers a down-to-earth portrayal of the saints. Each distinct story vividly recreates for the intermediate reader the saint's place of origin, family life, and corresponding historical events. Every volume also features a …

Saints Of The Americas Elaine Stone Most Catholics are familiar with saints such as St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Patrick. They lived and died in the Old World long before Christopher Columbus discovered America. Soon after the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria arrived from Spain, many missionaries came from Europe to convert the indigenous peoples. Not as well known to most …

Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity Alma Powers-Water Vision Books   In 1975, Mother Elizabeth Seton was canonized as America's first native-born Roman Catholic saint. This Vision Book tells the inspiring true story of the life of Elizabeth Bayley Seton from her childhood in a distinguished New York family to her becoming a Sister and foundress of an American religious order. Born in …

Francois Roustang, S.J. The story of the early Jesuit missionaries who arrived in North America between 1632 and 1637 is a remarkable by all accounts. For twenty long years, they toiled alone and unaided in the vast, wild regions of eastern Canada, bearing the hardships of a harsh climate, scarcity of food and inadequate lodging, as well as the constant menace of those inhabitants they had …

By Victoria Dority, MSC, and Mary Lou Andes, MSC Illustrated by Barbara Kiwak Here’s the inspiring story of Mother Cabrini, the first American citizen to be declared a saint. As a child growing up in Italy, she dreamed of one day becoming a missionary. But how—and where— God’s plan for her finally came about was a surprise, even to her! Written with authority by two sisters of the Order Mother …

St. Isaac and the Indians Milton Lomask Vision Books Over three hundred years ago, many Frenchmen came to the unknown forests along the St. Lawrence River. Most of them came in search of furs and wealth. But there were some-a handful of Jesuit missionaries-who came not to get, but to give. They wished to give the savage Indians the knowledge of God and of His love for them. One of these …

Susan Helen Wallace, FSP Encounter the Saints Series Experience the adventures and challenges, heroism and holiness of some of the greatest friends of God! Offers intermediate readers a down-to-earth portrayal of the saints. Each distinct story vividly recreates for the intermediate reader the saint's place of origin, family life, and corresponding historical events. Every volume also features …

Francis Talbot, S.J. “I go, but I shall never come back again.” These were Isaac Jogues' words on the eve of embarking for a second missionary attempt in America. Shortly afterward, a skull-splitting Mohawk tomahawk made him a martyr. Fresh from the elegant life of Renaissance France, Jesuit priest Isaac Jogues landed in the savage wilderness of America in 1636. He came fervent in his priestly …

Saints Of The American Wilderness - The Brave Lives And Holy Deaths Of The Eight North American Martyrs Fr. John A. O'Brien French priests enter a war zone where captured Westerners are paraded before their captors, tortured, and then beheaded. Their desecrated bodies get dumped by the roadside. Iraq in 2004? The Gaza Strip? Western Afghanistan? No. A place more dangerous: Canada in the 1600s. …

Fr. Juan Echevarria The Miracles of St. Anthony Mary Claret is a book of short stories and anecdotes about the unusual events and actual miracles in hte life of this major Saint, who has been called by Pope Pius XI the "Apostle of the Press." Born in 1807 at Sallent in Spain, Saint Anthony Mary Claret was an intelligent, good and holy boy, and as a young man worked at and aspired to the …

Rev. Jude Winkler Information for children on the following saints:  St. Juan Diego, St. Rose of Lima and St. Martin de Porres, St. Peter Claver, St. Isaac Jogues, Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha, Bl. Junipero Serra, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. Miguel Cordero, St. John Neumann, St. Mariana of Quito, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, St. Katherine Drexel, Bl. Miguel Agustin Pro, …

St. Francis Cabrini Coloring Book Mary Fabyan Windeatt Tells about the frail young Italian girl who was turned down for the religious life, yet who ended up founding the Church's first order of missionary sisters and who came to the U.S. to help poor Italian immigrants keep the Faith. She opened dozens of Catholic schools, convents, orphanages and hospitals in the U.S. and South America. …

Fanchon Royer Zeal for the salvation of souls spurred St. Anthony Mary Claret to preach an estimated 25,000 sermons, write 144 books, found three religious orders, preach countless missions, and in six years a bishop, confirm over 300,000 and validate more than, 9,000 marriages. Starting as a missionary in Spain and the Canary Islands, he was later appointed Archbishop of Santiago, Cuba and …

Chris tine Virginia Orfeo, FSP  Mary E. Tebo, FSP Encounter the Saints Series Experience the adventures and challenges, heroism and holiness of some of the greatest friends of God! Offers intermediate readers a down-to-earth portrayal of the saints. Each distinct story vividly recreates for the intermediate reader the saint's place of origin, family life, and corresponding historical …