The Lives Of The Saints Of Egypt Together With The Principal Of The European Saints

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483798069
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book The Lives of the Saints of Egypt written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lives of the Saints of Egypt: Together With the Principal of the European Saints, According to the Roman Catholic Church: Selected From the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, Which Have Been Published With the Approbation of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Philadelphia and Baltimo To lead a life of piety, even great piety, we need not retire into a wilderness, nor enter a cloister. We may remain in the world, in any honest station, exposed as it may be to temptations, and yet lead a life of piety. Where there is such room for the exercise of all the nobler virtues, as there is in the world, there the soul may be made to shine forth in its full lustre; and though our sanctity may not be so established, by the working of miracles, as among the saints in the desert, yet shall we be the no less near to heaven, by our lives of piety, nor the less sure of a heavenly crown. Nothing can be more beneficial, in order to practise such piety, than the fre quent reading of the lives of the saints. St. Francis of Sales and St. Francis Borgia, 850. Were not saints of Egypt, yet the publisher thought proper to insert their lives in this volume, as they are so useful for all classes of readers, and have such tendency to instil sentiments of piety. C. Grate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.