Published: 2017-10-19
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Excerpt from Catholic Legends: A New Collection, Selected, Translated, and Arranged From the Best Sources On the minds of the young they are calculated to exercise a most beneficial influence. Provided that due care is taken to impress upon the growing intelligence the true character and weight of these legends, they will tend to feed the imagination with that nourishment which it ardently desires, and which it is most impor tant to supply to it, in immediate connection with the realities of the invisible world, and not with purely secular romance and poetry alone. In some cases the narratives have been thrown into a more dramatic shape than that in which they are to be found in their original forms. And if the same plan has not been followed with all, we must claim the pri vilege of a story-teller, and ask leave to tell our tales in whatever style and fashion the nature of each has seemed to require. A very few of the following stories have before ap peered in an English form, though not 'dentical with their present shape. 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.