Author: Florence Gilmore
Title: The Martyr of Futuna: Blessed Peter Chanel of the Society of Mary
Description: Maryknoll, NY, Catholic Foreign Missionary of America, 1917. Hardcover. 199p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. The spine has a dent in the middle and a label near the bottom. Edges lightly rubbed and corners a bit bent at the tips. Stamps on edges, endpapers, and title page, and card pocket in back. Otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. Scarce biography of St. Peter Chanel (1803-1841), a Marist missionary priest who was clubbed to death while ministering on the island of Futuna. He was canonized in 1954. This book is illustrated with several black and white plates. Fair .

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