The Book of Saints and Heroes
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · January 3, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- Saintly legends sit alongside true stories of courage, kindness, and piety.
- Themes
- Christian saints and heroes, Courage, kindness, and piety, Saints in legends and true stories
- Genres
- Christian Biography, Myths & Folklore, Religious Biographies for Kids
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The first Christians to visit Europe and the British Isles met pagans who told tales of fairies, talking beasts, and other wonderful things. To these marvelous stories, they soon added new ones about the Christian saints. Some were true, others improbable, and many simply fantastic. In the ones we include here, you'll meet the saint who spent seven Easters on a whale's back and the amiable lion who was St. Jerome's friend.
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You'll see St. George fight the dragon, and you'll read about the fierce wolf St. Francis of Assisi converted. But many of these stories have in them scarcely a wave of the fairy wand. So you'll also find here true tales of great saints such as St. Louis of France, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Francis Xavier, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary-- souls marked by courage, kindness, and piety. These marvelous legends and exciting true stories of Christian saints and heroes will provide many hours of delightful reading to believers and non-believers alike!
Saints and Marvelous Tales
Saintly legends sit alongside true stories of courage, kindness, and piety.
Come here for
- A saint spending seven Easters on a whale’s back
- St. George’s fight with a dragon
Expect
- St. Jerome’s friendship with a lion
- True stories of St. Louis of France
Where it sits
| Myths & Folklore | 72% |
|---|---|
| Religious Biographies for Kids | 60% |
| Christian Biography | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Folktale Retellings
- Authors
- Lang
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- January 3, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Christian saints and heroes · Courage, kindness, and piety · Saints in legends and true stories
- Reading lane
- The Classics