Saintly creatures : 14 tales of animals and their holy companions

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Meet a friar who tamed a dangerous wolf, an abbess who rescued a wounded boar, a faithful man who shared a tiger's cave, and many more holy men and women befriended by God's creatures!

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ISBN:

9781685789893

Description:

59 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

14 tales of animals and their holy companions
Fourteen tales of animals and their holy companions

Contents:

The boar and Saint Brigid
The mice and Saint Martin de Porres
The wolf and Saint Francis of Assisi
The horse and Saint José Sánchez del Río
The sheep and Saint Germaine Cousin
The tiger and blessed James Heo in-baek
The geese and Saint Werburgh
The great gray dog and Saint John Bosco
The bees and Saint Rita
The hyena and Saint Macarius
The ravens and Saint Meinrad
The lion and Saint Mary of Egypt
The whale and Saint Brendan
The pets of blessed Carlo Acutis

Control Number:

3293089

Other Authors:

Barghigiani, Anita, 1987- illustrator

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