The Book of Saints & Heroes

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. 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!

Includes stories of St. Paul, St. Anthony, St. Dorothea, St. Jerome, St. Synesius of Cyrene, St. Augustine, St. Germanus, St. Malchus, St. Cuthbert, St. Brendan, St. Senan, St. Dunstan, St. Columba, St. Margaret Queen of Scotland, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Louis King of France, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Richard of Chichester, St. Colette, St. Francis Xavier, St. John of God, St. Vincent de Paul, and St. George.

• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
• Author: Andrew Lang
• Format: 325 pages, paperback
• ISBN: 1-933184-13-2