Sixty Saints for Girls by Joan Winham
$20.95
Joan
Windham’s Sixty Saints for Girls contains all her stories of girl
and woman saints from her other books, with a number of new ones
added. The stores are arranged by date, beginning with Our Lady’s
mother, St. Anne, and finishing with another Anne, Anne de Guigne
(this Anne, who died in 1922, aged 10, has not been canonized, but
she was declared Venerable on March 3, 1990 by Pope John Paul II). In
between is a lovely mix of saints, young and old, princesses and
pilgrims, mothers and grandmothers and nuns: a goose-girl and a
horse-dealer’s daughter; a girl who was kidnapped by pirates, a
veterinarian, and (believe it or not) a ventriloquist! These stories
are ideally suited to inspire readers to fall in love with virtue. No
child reading them will ever suppose that saints are all cut to one
pattern or that holiness is less interesting than bad behavior.
Anyone who wants to know what a saint is really like will get a clear
and beautiful picture by reading these accounts, and they can be
enjoyed over and over again by children of all ages, and by adults
alike.
Product Details:
- 277 pages
- Paperback
