FOR KIDS: Saints, Knights, Dragons, and More!

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.

St. Paul and St. Anthony
The First of the Hermits

St. Francis of Assisi
and the Wolf of Agobio

St. Margaret aids prisoners

St. Margaret
Queen of Scotland

St. Jerome
The Saint with the Lion

Andrew and Lenora Lang
Andrew Lang was a journalist, poet, editor, literary critic, translator, and historian. Born in Scotland in 1844, he wrote novels and works of poetry, many books on culture and religion, and even translated the Iliad and the Odyssey. By the time he died in 1912, Andrew Lang was widely known as a versatile, prodigious scholar. Today, Lang is remembered not so much for his scholarship as for the many fine collections of stories and tales that he compiled with the assistance of his wife Lenora. The Book of Saints and Heroes is one of the best of them.

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. 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!

The Book of Saints and Heroes
by Andrew & Lenora Lang
336 pgs along with more than a dozen
delightful full-page illustrations
from the 1912 edition.
$24.95 hardcover
Ages 10-adult
1-800-888-9344
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Includes Exciting Tales of:

St. Paul and St. Anthony
The First of the Hermits

St. Jerome
The Saint with the Lion

St. Augustine
From Sinner to Saint

St. Simeon Stylites
Saint on a Pillar

St. Cuthbert
Apostle of Northumbria

St. Columba
The Exiled Monk

St. Brendan
Sailor Saint

St. Senan
Charm Queller

St. Dunstan
Friend of Kings

St. Elizabeth of Hungary
The Pious Princess

St. Louis IX
Saint and King

St. Francis of Assisi
Preacher to the Birds

St. Francis Xavier
Apostle of the Japanese

St. John of God
Servant of the Poor

St. Vincent de Paul
Founder of Hospitals

St. George
Patron Saint of England

And other
Saints and Heroes!