LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664595041

Table of Contents

       ABOUT THIS BOOK

       LIST OF STORIES

       LIST OF PICTURES

       SAINT URSULA

       SAINT BENEDICT

       SAINT CHRISTOPHER

       SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA

       SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

       SAINT AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY

       SAINT CECILIA

       SAINT GILES

       SAINT NICHOLAS

       SAINT FAITH

       SAINT COSMO AND SAINT DAMIAN

       SAINT MARTIN

       SAINT GEORGE

       SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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      There is a garden which God has planted for Himself, more beautiful than any earthly garden. The flowers that bloom there are the white souls of His saints, who have kept themselves pure and unspotted from the world.

      In God's garden there is every kind of flower, each differing from the other in beauty. Some are tall and stately like the lilies, growing where all may see them in their dress of white and gold; some are half concealed like the violets, and known only by the fragrance of kind deeds and gentle words which have helped to sweeten the lives of others; while some, again, are hidden from all earthly eyes, and only God knows their loveliness and beholds the secret places where they grow. But known or unknown, all have risen above the dark earth, looking ever upward; and, although often bent and beaten down by many a cruel storm of temptation and sin, they have ever raised their heads again, turning their faces towards God; until at last they have been crowned with the perfect flower of holiness, and now blossom for ever in the Heavenly Garden.

      In this book you will not find the stories of all God's saints. I have gathered a few together, just as one gathers a little posy from a garden full of roses. But the stories I have chosen to tell are those that I hope children will love best to hear.

      Let us remember that God has given to all of us, little children as well as grown-up people, a place in His garden here on earth, and He would have us take these white flowers, the lives of His saints, as a pattern for our own. We may not be set where all can see us; our place in God's garden may be a very humble and sheltered spot; but, like the saints, we may keep our faces ever turned upward, and learn to grow, as they grew, like their Master, pure and straight and strong—fit flowers to blossom in the Garden of God.

      'Saints are like roses when they flush rarest,

      Saints are like lilies when they bloom fairest,

      Saints are like violets, sweetest of their kind.'

LIST OF STORIES

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LIST OF PICTURES

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