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Dying of Money
“As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the mechanics of Weimar inflation published in 1974. Ebay is offering a well-thumbed volume of Jens Parsson’s Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations at a starting bid of $699... ” The Daily Telegraph’s perceptive economics guru Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has consistently refused to disguise from his readers the gravity of the world’s worsening financial crisis. His 26th July 2010 article on “The Death of Paper Money” (quoted above) presented Parsson’s work as containing a clear forecast of what the future holds based on careful analysis of the past. The following day, Tradibooks rushed the long-forgotten book back into print…. This clear and easy-to-read explanation will enable you to judge whether hyperinflation is now inevitable, and, if so, how best to get ready for it.

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THE END OF THE PRESENT WORLD
This book played a crucial role in the life of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus who warmly recommended it. Canon Arminjon recounts all that Scripture contains and that tradition transmits about the last times of this world, Antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the two witnesses, death, judgment, heaven and hell, eternity. He explains the life of Christian sacrifice as the key to eternal glory. Fascinating and readable, Arminjon's book changes lives ! The Tradibooks translation remains as of 2010 the ONLY unabridged, unexpurgated English version of this Catholic bestseller on the market.

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The Pope and The Antichrist
Cardinal Manning's 1861 study of the papacy as the obstacle to Antichrist has never been more topical. The learned convert seems to have foreseen many details of the present crisis: religious liberty, ecumenism, national apostasy, apparent defeat of the Church. Manning argues that the apostasy of the nations of christendom and the eclipse of the papacy will usher in the reign of Antichrist.

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Hell Opened to Christians
For three centuries English-speaking Catholics have found spiritual nourishment in Father Pinamonti’s classic Hell Opened to Christians, but prior to the present edition it has long been out of print. Not even the knowledge that it was the source for the celebrated sermon on Hell in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man could make it of more than academic interest to an age for which eternal damnation is an exploded myth rather than the greatest and most real of all perils. The uncompromising doctrine, terrifying descriptions and spine-chilling illustrations of Hell and its torments have made this book an object of repugnance to worldlings, unbelievers and modernists. But for those who believe in God’s revelation on this topic as transmitted to us by His Church, there can surely be no more salutary safeguard. Is it possible to read Hell Opened to Christians and yet to remain wilfully in the state of mortal sin ?

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What is TRUE Education ?
Father Leen's 1943 classic is a complete guide to what human existence is meant to be : a mind that thinks clearly and adheres to truth, a heart that seeks and loves the good, a soul that enjoys true beauty, a noble, courageous character - and all this just the prelude to the divine life of grace in this world and of glory in the next. How to form oneself and others to live as God intended in time and in eternity.

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De Valore Notarum Theologicarum
This is the guide to the Church's official qualifications which designate the exact status of any theological statement between the two opposite extremes of "dogma" (taught by the Church to be revealed truth) and "heresy" (condemned by the Church as opposed to revealed truth). Also contains solid refutation of recent Modernistic and Kantian errors. Compiled for the internal use of the Vatican's Holy Office in 1951. Yes, this work is written in Latin !

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The School of Saint Philip Neri
Bishop Crispino invites his readers to become scholars in the school of Saint Philip and to pursue holiness by the saint's methods and example as well as those of his immediate disciples.Saint Philip Neri was chosen by God to renew the penances, the holiness and the miracles of the Fathers of the desert in the heart of post-Renaissance Rome. Many of his disciples also attained great holiness under the Saint’s guidance. The city of Rome was transformed. He converted great sinners and little ones and even ... the lukewarm. He knew how to cure vices however incurable and shameful they might appear. Humour and humility, austerity and originality seasoned his apostolate. Every page of his life-story is fascinating, yet this book is not a biography, but a complete guide to the spiritual life:one that is irresistibly entertaining, with its constant thread of edifying anecdotes, charming the reader’s imagination as it leads him insensibly to aspire to imitate as well as admire.

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Commonitorium Against Heresies
Bilingual English-Latin edition of the fifteen hundred-year-old classic Handbook against Heresies. Praised by saints and theologians, for some it is a patristic jewel, for others the mandate of traditional Catholicism. “To preach any doctrine therefore to Catholic Christians other than what they have received never was lawful, still is not lawful and never will be lawful: and to anathematize those who preach anything other than what has once been received, always was a duty, still is a duty and always will be a duty. “The more a man is under the influence of religion, so much the more prompt is he to oppose innovations” “What is a Catholic Christian to do if some novel contagion seek to infect not just a small portion of the Church, but the whole Church? Then it will be his care to cleave to antiquity, which cannot possibly be seduced any longer by any deceptive innovation.”

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Life of Father Ignatius Spencer
Who is this ragged old pauper lying dead in a ditch in Scotland in 1865, penniless and alone? Can it really be the Honourable George Spencer — son, brother and uncle of earls? Whose father was the First Lord of the Admiralty? Whose sister is governess to Queen Victoria? Whose cousin and playfellow was the Lord Lucan who gave the fateful order to the Light Brigade? The relative of the Dukes of Marlborough and Devonshire, the familiar acquaintance of Prime Ministers? An alumnus of Eton and Cambridge, a scholar, polyglot, and one-time man-about-town? Whose great great great niece, Lady Diana Spencer, is destined to wed the heir to the throne? Look closer. What is this strange black habit about the corpse? But hush — it is the body of a priest, a religious. The dead man has voluntarily renounced riches for poverty, comfort for the Cross, friendship with the mighty for fellowship with the poor. He has given up even his name and title for that of Father Ignatius of St. Paul. Here is his story.

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Father William Doyle S.J.
The Irish military chaplain Father William Doyle S.J. (1873-1917) combined humour, holiness and courage in an outstanding degree. His death during the third battle of Ypres left intact for posterity the detailed spiritual diaries in which he had recorded for private use his methodical and gruelling path of self-conquest and the growth of his passionate love of Christ. Providence furnished him as biographer the most learned Irishman of his generation: his friend Professor Alfred O’Rahilly. The resulting biography is a compulsively readable and revealing exploration of sanctity under the microscope, by an author whose calm judgement never falters. Father Doyle had devoted his life to the preaching of parish missions and had received the extraordinary grace of never once failing to obtain the conversion of the straying sheep, even hardened sinners, he sought out. But the grace he most yearned for was martyrdom, and he finally won his palm on the bloodiest battlefield of history.

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Tales of the Angels
Father Faber's four immortal stories for children. When the saints write stories for children, Hans Anderson and the brothers Grimm are no longer in the running. These stories will appeal to every Christian child, not just because they are filled with wonderful and mysterious events, but because the fairyland on which they open a window is not a world of fiction but the world of invisible reality that surrounds us : the world of Christ and His angels where the mystery of redemption is invisibly at work.

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Heresy
"The delict of heresy in its commission, penalization, absolution" : the full title given by Father MacKenzie (later Bishop MacKenzie) to his 1932 theological and canonical study gives the clearest possible picture of its contents. This is a work of serious scholarship - originally written as a doctoral dissertation. Layfolk or clergy, ordinary readers or specialists will all find in its pages a mine of thoroughly documented information about what heresy is, how it is committed, what punishments are incurred by heretics and how the repentant heretic is absolved and reconciled.

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Dion and the Sibyls
“The greatest historical novel ever written.” There is no other way to describe Miles Gerald Keon’s 1866 classic. If Quo Vadis, Ben Hur or Fabiola have brought you pleasure and profit, Dion and the Sibyls will surpass them all. Set in Rome at the time of Christ, the plot brings together all the chief historical persons of the day in events which thrill, entertain and inform while never ceasing to be credible. Watch the valiant Paulus Æmilius, nephew of the triumvir, subdue the Sejan horse, save the gold of Germanicus Cæsar, triumph in battle, save his sister abducted by the tyrant Tiberius and fall hopelessly in love with the bewitching Israelite Esther whose faith forbids her to marry him. Listen to his friend Dionysius the Areopagite debating the existence of God and the immortality of the soul with the greatest minds of the court of Augustus. Be astonished at the prophecies of the mysterious and ageless Sibyl.

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The Child's Guide to Knowledge
Fanny Umphelby’s handbook of information about everything under the sun ran through sixty-seven editions between 1825 and 1907. No family bookshelf lacked its copy. Its question-and-answer format lent itself to the rote-learning then in vogue. Even in his adult years scientist Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) could recite most of it by heart. History, science, technology, geography, agriculture, the origin of every substance or article one could meet with : the author considered that the child’s naturally inquiring mind should be informed about everything and three generations were indebted to her for a lifetime’s store of useful knowledge. To the modern reader, much is still relevant, and what the passage of time has rendered no longer exact (the extent of the British Empire, the most up-to-date means of communication, the number of copies of The Times printed each day, etc) still opens an invaluable window on history.

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The Dates of the Birth and Death of Jesus Christ
Is the Christian calendar we all use historically accurate? Was 1 A.D. really the first “year of the Lord”? Does the Christian era start from the true date of Our Lord’s birth? Was Christ in fact crucified under Pontius Pilate in 33 A.D. as Christian tradition tells us? Is there any way of knowing for sure? Most scholars answer, No. They claim that our calendar is wrong and that Christ was born at the latest in 4 B.C. They rely on the first century Jewish historian’s date for the death of Herod to reject the traditional date assigned by Dionysius the Little which the civilised world has followed ever since. But General Hugues de Nanteuil has re-examined the evidence and demonstrates overwhelmingly that it was Josephus who got his dates wrong, not the Church. While vindicating the Christian calendar he also provides a mass of fascinating testimony to the historical truth of the Christian faith.

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The Relations of the Church to Society
Father Edmund O’Reilly may safely be judged the foremost Irish theologian of the nineteenth century. In his celebrated letter to the Duke of Norfolk, Cardinal Newman appeals to him as “one of the first theologians of the day”. Of the present work Dr W. G. Ward of the Dublin Review writes that it “cannot but be of signal benefit to the Catholic reader in these anxious and perilous times”. Clear, exact and perfectly orthodox, Father O’Reilly explains the whole of Catholic doctrine about the relations of Church and State, particularly those points that are most contested by the Church’s enemies or least understood by uninstructed Catholics. The explanation of the Church’s traditional attitude to religious liberty, the theological explanation of the Great Western Schism, the precise extent of the infallibility of the Pope and of the Church are of particular interest in the twenty-first century.

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The Chronicle of Saint Antony of Padua
Saint Antony has won the hearts of millions of Catholics the world over : we love him for his goodness, his miracles, his devotion to the Christ-Child, but above all his readiness to answer all our prayers even for our humble temporal needs, and famously for helping us find things we have lost. But how much do we know about him ? Father Coleridge’s life of Saint Antony of Padua is highly readable and historically reliable. Based on the ancient Franciscan chronicles it recounts Saint Antony’s miracles with devotion and without scepticism. It will help every reader come to know better the wonder-worker whose statue or image is found in every church and so many homes.

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Defence of the Seven Sacraments
King Henry VIII is famous for having sundered England from the papacy in 1534. But in 1521 he was still fully Catholic and personally wrote this punchy theological treatise against the "pestilential heresy" of Martin Luther. Before the death of his elder brother, Henry had been destined for the Church. He displays true learning and skilful debating in his defence of the seven sacraments and the Holy See. He poignantly champions the divine origin of the papacy and proves at length the indissolubity of the sacrament of matrimony which he was in later years to violate so often. It was this work which won for Henry the title of "Defender of the Faith", awarded by Pope Leo X, which still appears on British coins. This edition is a photographic reprint of high and easily readable quality.

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The Truth about Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI
Alexander VI, is widely believed to have been the worst of the popes. He is said to have spent his nights in orgies and his days in organising the assassination of rivals, purloining church funds, and granting high offices to his numerous illegitimate children. But the most serious and scholarly historian to have studied the original sources for his life, Mgr. Peter De Roo, concludes that he was entirely innocent of any of the offences he is charged with: he did not obtain the papacy by bribery, he was not the father of any children, legitimate or otherwise, he was not a murderer or corrupt. Very much to the contrary, he was in fact a man of austerity, prayerfulness and charity, highly principled, a superb administrator, justly revered and loved throughout his life, and altogether an exemplary Pope, indeed quite possibly a saint. In these pages N. Martin Gwynne draws on the five volumes of De Roo's unrefuted scholarship, to show that Pope Alexander VI may well be the most calumniated man in history.

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How Grace Acts
Saint Alphonsus's classic work on divine grace translated into English for the first time and first published here by Tradibooks in 2007.

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The House of Commons and Monarchy
Here is Belloc’s mature thought on political systems in general and on the state of England in particular. The main function of government is “to protect the weak man against the strong, and therefore to prevent the accumulation of wealth in a few hands, the corruption of the Courts of Justice and of the sources of public opinion.” He explains the nature of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, the conditions in which they can function, their advantages and disadvantages as systems of government and their relation to English requirements. A scathing denunciation of the corruption and irresponsibility of the House of Commons which had lost the respect of the governed. An appeal for a return to true monarchy, rather than puppet kings, as the only hope for England. A prophecy that England cannot remain great, nor Englishmen achieve true freedom and fulfilment, if they continue to tolerate the existing oligarchy. First published in 1920.

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The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier
This is the classic life of the great Saint Francis Xavier who renewed the labours and the miracles of the Apostles in the sixteenth century. Weaving his text around 124 full-length original letters written by the saint, Father Coleridge brings him to life and allows us to know him intimately: the arm fatigued by so many baptisms, the gentle voice that converted, the heart that loved and was loved, the eye that penetrated the soul and the future : the miraculous cures, resurrections, deliverance from impending disaster, the bilocations, the gift of tongues, the burning zeal to spread the kingdom of Christ, the tender charity for every misfortune, the daily combat to rescue souls from damnation, the faith that saw the truths of the catechism as clearly as we see material objects, the terrible anathemas thundered against those who obstruct the Church’s mission – and finally the death, alone, at Chan, yearning to win China but summoned to glory at just 46.

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"Dios no muere!" the life of Gabriel Garcia Moreno
One of the greatest Catholics of the nineteenth century; one of the greatest stories in history. Gabriel García Moreno, in a century of revolution, liberalism and unbelief, demonstrated to an incredulous world that the politics of Christ the King furnish the infallible solution to every social evil. Born in Ecuador in 1821, García Moreno twice served as president of his fatherland. In the face of the furious opposition of the Freemasons, revolutionaries, socialists, liberals, criminals and parasites, he lifted Ecuador from poverty, corruption, vice, civil war and misery of every sort to a state of order, peace and prosperity by means of: 1. a Catholic constitution, in conformity with the doctrine of the Catholic state; 2. Catholic schools; 3. the severe and even-handed punishment of all evildoers; 4. personal courage, diligence and holiness of the highest order. García Moreno crowned his career by dying a martyr’s death, exclaiming “Dios no muere!” God does not die.

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Venial Sin
Bishop Vaughan's 1924 classic on venial sin. The author had five sisters who were nuns and five brothers who were priests, including one archbishop and one cardinal. His message is that we are all too careless about venial sin, which is the greatest of all evils with only one exception (mortal sin). Any reader of this book will receive a strong impulse to correct those "little" defects which are the ruin of our efforts after holiness, constantly incline us to fall into worse sins, and are invariably an offence against the infinite majesty of God.

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Beatification and Canonization
Father Faber’s classic Essay on Beatification, Canonization and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites summarizes, in a concise, stimulating read, the entire contents of scholar-pope Benedict XIV’s multi-volume compendium on the same subject. In these pages the reader will learn more about the saints, about what sainthood is, and about the processes by which the Church judges it, than in any other book in the English language. It has the added merit that Faber, who is widely regarded as a candidate for canonization himself, approaches the saints with infectious enthusiasm and ardour.

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When Mother or Baby Must Die
Most people can easily see why abortion is wrong. But the issue of abortion on medical grounds is more complex for many when doctors say that, if the baby is not destroyed, both mother and child will inevitably die. It is argued that between two evils, the lesser should be chosen. Father Bouscaren’s classic work is devoted to the only case in which this conflict is at all likely: the case of ectopic pregnancy. With the skill of a gifted moralist who is also a persuasive debater, the author shows that, although the death of one person is evidently a lesser evil than the death of two, nonetheless the death of one person intended and produced directly by a violation of the moral law is not a lesser evil than the death of two from natural causes without any sin on the part of anyone. But he also opposes the simplistic view that would require every ectopic pregnancy to be left to its fatal conclusion. He explains which procedures are morally acceptable and medically useful.

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The Theology of Prayer
What is prayer? What part of us prays? What is the cause of prayer and what is the effect of prayer? Is prayer necessary? Who can pray? Pray to whom? Pray for what? (Spiritual benefits? temporal benefits?) How should we pray? On what conditions will our prayer be heard? Petition or worship? The prayer of Christ, the prayer of the Church, the prayer of the saints, the prayer of the Holy Souls, the prayer of individuals; vocal prayer and mental prayer: how do they differ and how do they relate? What are the degrees of prayer? How does prayer sanctify? The foremost American theologian of the twentieth century gives the Catholic answers to all these questions and more in this invaluable work.

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The Christian of the Day and the Christian of the Gospel
The saintly Fr. Emmanuel André (1826–1903) was probably France’s most successful pastor of the last two centuries after the Curé of Ars. He transformed his lukewarm rural parish into a haven of sanctity and founded a Benedictine monastery there, of which he was been named abbot. His work inspired Saint Pius X. Looking at the Catholics of his day, Fr. Emmanuel was horror-stricken. He saw their salvation jeopardised, especially by Naturalism, doctrinal ignorance, moral laxity, vanity, worldliness and want of the spirit of the Church. The chief weapon he used to convert souls was the Church’s official prayer, the traditional Roman liturgy. In this short book Fr. Emmanuel sets out with frightening clarity the gulf that separates ignorant, worldly and temporising Catholics from the Christian whose mind and life fully reflects Christ’s Gospel. Never before translated.

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Walking Like A Queen - Irish Impressions
Everything Chesterton writes is filled with wit and wisdom—surely he was the twentieth century’s most perceptive writer. Here he sets out his thoughts about Catholic Ireland, following a visit in 1918 in which he met all the leading Irish thinkers. Against the backdrop of the First World War, about which he cared passionately, and the struggle for the right of the Irish to govern their own island, in which he had always believed, he narrates his visit and sets down his reflections and his previsions. No one interested in Ireland or in England, in politics or in religion or in literature will read this book without renewed astonishment at the author’s unfailing insight into whatever he touches on. This annotated edition provides over 100 new footnotes helping modern readers to understand contemporary allusions.

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Catechism on the Choice of a State of Life
Shall I best save my soul married or unmarried, as a priest or religious or as a layman or woman ? What factors should affect my choice ? This re-edition of the Catechism on the Choice of a State of Life is designed to answer these questions as fully as possible. To do so it draws on the writings of the saints, doctors, popes and most approved theologians. Its content is in perfect conformity with the Holy See’s 1912 decree clarifying this subject and putting an end to several centuries of confusion. It will be of great value to all young people as well as to parents, teachers, retreat-masters and spiritual directors. Also contains wise guidance on the choice of one's future spouse.

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My Water Cure
Bavarian priest Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897) was one of the most celebrated healers of the nineteenth century. Europe seemed to pour into his country parish to be treated. For Kneipp, sickness is due to a weakened constitution and cure depends on strengthening the system until its self-healing powers overcome whatever is sapping its vitality. To restore bodily strength to the sick he had recourse to the tonic effects of cold water. Kneipp denounced the weakness of an effete generation. He healed using water and traditional herbal medicine. Many doctors flocked to learn from him, astounded to see patients they had given up for lost restored to vibrant health by such simple methods. In 1894 Kneipp found himself called upon to treat Pope Leo XIII, who—faithful to Kneipp’s medical advice—was to govern the Church until the age of 93. The humble pastor returned home a Privy Chamberlain. This is the most famous of his books and summarises all his wisdom concerning sickness and health.

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Bobby in Movieland
Father Francis Finn’s thrilling and popular books for Catholic schoolboys need no introduction. According to the American Catholic Who’s Who, Father Finn is “universally acknowledged as the foremost Catholic writer of fiction for young people.” His twenty-seven books have been translated into ten languages. The young reader will insensibly drink in edification, piety, honour and the spirit of hard work along with his entertainment. Boys who read Father Finn’s books turn into fine Catholic men. This one tells the adventures of young Bobby Vernon in the early days of Hollywood.

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The Mercy of Allah
The Mercy of Allah is not a book about Islam. Purporting to be the memoirs of an enormously wealthy and wholly conscienceless merchant of Baghdad, it is in fact a satirical exposé of corruption in politics, government, law, religion, but above all in the world of banking and finance. Belloc reveals himself as a humorist in the class of Wodehouse and Waugh, but more importantly as a well-informed and perceptive commentator on how the world, and particularly its finances, are run. For you may read this book to enjoy its richness and wit, or you may revel in the story as a work of fiction, but at the deepest level, the author bequeaths to us in this immortal story his analysis of why the international banking system violates reality and must eventually collapse, dragging down in its wake the corrupt system of pseudo-democratic government which is its puppet—a prophetic commentary on the events we are living through.

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The Adventures of Owen Evans
A rattling good novel: “the Catholic Crusoe”! Unbeknown to his more decent crewmen, the captain of the schooner has decided to turn pirate. He and his accomplices decide to unburden themselves of those deemed unlikely to join them in a life of crime. Thus five lukewarm Protestants and a Spanish priest are marooned in 1739 on a Caribbean island. The castaways spend four adventurous years together, in which excitement of every sort alternates with their instruction in the Faith. When they are rescued, there are no more Protestants on the island, and it is doubtful whether any Protestant who takes up this book will resist the kindness and persuasive apologetics of friar Don Manuel. Fr. Anderdon, who was nephew and secretary to Cardinal Manning, is a talented and learned writer. The ship’s surgeon, Owen Evans, recounts the events in a way that will thrill every reader and impart instruction and edification without straining the reader’s goodwill.

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The Secret of Saint John Bosco
This is a highly readable life of Saint John Bosco, the nineteenth century saint raised up to reclaim children from unbelief, vice and delinquency. Pope Pius XI canonised this “giant of holiness,” saying that he knew no life of a saint wherein the direct and miraculous action of God was more continuously manifest. The reader will fall in love with the saint as all who knew him did during his lifetime. His miracles will silence the voice of scepticism and his goodness will soften the hardest of hearts. Young readers will feel his help in resisting the temptations that surround them. Parents and educators will learn his secrets. Every reader will be inspired to greater love of God and more strenuous efforts in His service.

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Comment vivre cent ans
Le noble vénitien Luigi Cornaro se trouvait si malade à 38 ans que les médecins n’espéraient pas qu’il atteignît la quarantaine. Pourtant il adopta un régime qui non seulement le guérit mais lui permit de dépasser son centenaire. Dans ce livre il explique les simples règles qu’il appliquait, en promettant à quiconque veut suivre son exemple de ne pas mourir de maladie avant le terme des cent ans. Cornaro rédigea la première partie de ce livre à l’âge de 83 ans, la deuxième à 86 ans et les deux autres à 91 ans et 95 ans. Il s’éteignit doucement, comme il l’avait prévu, à l’âge de 102 ans en 1566. Voilà quatre siècles que ce petit livre est devenu le plus célèbre classique de la santé et de la longévité. La clairvoyance de l’auteur continue d’impressionner les lecteurs modernes et ses conseils s’attirent encore des adhérents convaincus.

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