Saint Louis de Montfort: The Story of Our Lady's Slave

by Windeatt, Paul A. Grout (Illustrator)

Overview

Though written for children 12 and older, this is also the best biography for adults of St. Louis De Montfort, the "Apostle of Mary, " famous preacher and author of True Devotion to Mary and The Secret of the Rosary. Truly inspiring! Impr. 211 pgs 20 Illus, PB

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895554147
Publisher:	TAN Books
Publication date:	12/28/1994
Series:	Stories of the Saints for Young People Ages 10 to 100 Series
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Mary Fabyan Windeatt lived from 1910-1979 and grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Mount Saint Vincent College awarded her a Licentiate of Music degree when she was just seventeen, and she began writing Catholic works when she was about twenty-four. Later she sent one of her stories to a Catholic magazine, and after it was accepted, she continued to write. In total she composed at least twenty-one children???s books, as well as periodical children???s pages written for The Torch, a monthly Dominican magazine.
Mary Windeatt is most renowned for her many novels of the saints, which she wrote specifically for children, including lives on the Children of Fatima, Cure of Ars, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Rose of Lima and many others. After living with her mother in St. Meinrad, Indiana, she died on the twentieth of November, 1979.

Table of Contents

1 A Fool or a Saint? 1

2 A Slave 6

3 Trouble with the Poorhouse Staff 10

4 Father Grignion Disappears 16

5 Father Grignion's Advice 21

6 Consecration to Mary 26

7 Preparing and More Preparing 31

8 Ready at Last 37

9 Mary Louise's Vocation 41

10 Mary Louise's New Life 47

11 The New Dress 51

12 Shock Waves from Jansenism 56

13 Searching for God's Will 61

14 "Father, Please Come Back!" 68

15 Sister Mary Louise's Decision 73

16 Preaching in the Streets 80

17 The Young Stranger 85

18 A Dishonest Plot 90

19 The Vicar General Says "No!" 95

20 New Hopes 99

21 Walking to Rome 104

22 Audience with the Pope-And Surprises Back Home 109

23 Helping to Make Saints 114

24 Discovered! 119

25 The Grumpy Brother 124

26 A New Mission 130

27 Ordered to Leave 133

28 A New Companion and an Old Shrine 139

29 Where to Dig? 144

30 The Calvary at Pontchateau 149

31 The Bombshell 153

32 Mission to the Calvinists 159

33 Verdict of the Three Canons 163

34 Pirates! 170

35 Hopes for the Future 175

36 Surprise for Sister Mary Louise 181

37 A Broken Promise 186

38 The Bargain 192

39 The Last Words of a Saint 197

Epilogue: Continuing the Great Work 202