Viscount St. Cyres

Francois de Fenelon

Port Washington, NY, Kennikat Press, 1970. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. 311p. A brown cloth hardcover book in fine condition. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. 1970 reprint from Kennikat Press; originally published in 1901. .

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Book number: 160619

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

A Sister of Notre Dame

The Message of Francis Thompson

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 77p. Spine red cloth. A hardcover book in very good condition. Previous owner's name, endpaper clipped, endpapers darkened, corners bumped, otherwise pages clean and tight. A paper written about the writings of Francis Thompson, a British poet who was a devout Catholic. .

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Book number: 125421

Catalogue: Catholic Biography

V. F. O'Daniel

The Right Rev. Edward Dominic Fenwick: Pioneer Missionary in Kentucky, Apostle of Ohio, First Bishop of Cincinnati

Washington DC, The Dominica, 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. 473p. Brown cloth. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: mark from sticker on spine, stamp on page edges, stamp on title page and endpapers. Some fading on endpapers, previous owner's name, corners bumped. Otherwise clean and tight. Fair .

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Book number: 1214925

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Gavan Davis

Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai

Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1973. Softcover. A softcover book in good condition. Light shelf wear to cover edgesand corners. Otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated cover. 293p. A biogrpahy of St. Damien de Veuster, often known as "Damien the Leper" or simply Father Damien. This book follows his ministry to lepers at a remote colony in Kalawao up until his death from leprosy, contracted at the settlement. Father Damien is one of the great saints of the 19th century, so clearly a witness to the Gospel that even the New York Times called for immediate canonization following his death. .

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Book number: 123276

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Helen Caldwell Day

Color, Ebony

New York, Sheed & Ward, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 182p. Ex-library. A mint-green hardcover book in good reading condition. Call number on spine, dustjacket clipping taped on front endpaper, and seminary library stamps inside. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The memoirs of a black American woman who converted to Catholicism and was part of the Catholic Worker Movement. Fair .

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Book number: 194674

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Dorothy Day

From Union Square to Rome

Silver Spring, MD, Preservation of the Faith Press, 1939. 1st Edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. 173p. Ex-library. A salmon-pink cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Spine tanned, slightly cockeyed, and marked with a call number. Glue stain inside front cover. Owner's inscription and various library stamps on endpapers, title page, and a few inner pages. Text itself is clean and binding is secure. A sturdy reading copy. A scarce publication by the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. In this memoir, Dorothy Day describes her conversion to Catholicism. .

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Book number: 173340

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Helen Caldwell Day

Not without Tears

New York, Sheed and Ward, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 270p. A beige hardcover book in good condition. Possibly ex-library, as there is sticker residue on the spine and portions of the jacket were once taped to the endpapers, leaving behind some additional residue. A few retreat house stamps inside, but text unmarked and binding tight. A black woman's memoirs of becoming Catholic. Scarce. .

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Book number: 179956

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Ilia Delio

Birth of a Dancing Star: From Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian

Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books, 2019. Paperback. 218p. A softcover book in very good condition. Dampstaining on back cover and last 50 or so pages. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 193708

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Rev. Martin Dempsey

From an Old Monk's Diary

Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited. 1st Edition. Paperback. 100p. A tan softcover book in good condition. Title handwritten on spine, which is creased. Exterior a bit soiled and edgeworn. Text clean and binding tight. A scarce work chronicling anecdotes of monastic life. Undated first edition; ca. 1939. .

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Book number: 149172

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Mother Dolores Hart & Richard DeNeut

The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows

San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 2013. 1st Edition 1st printing. Hardcover. 457p. A fine hardcover book in a like dustjacket. Clean and tight. The remarkable story of Dolores Hart, a young actress who left her successful career in Hollywood to become a nun. This book includes her writings and additional material by Richard DeNeut. Includes sections of b/w and color photographs. .

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Book number: 1249580

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Dominic Devas

Mother Mary of the Passion: Foundress of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (1839-1904)

New York, Longmans, Green & Co, 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 102p. A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Corners bumped at the very tips. Endpapers tanned; otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Biography of Helene Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville, known as Mary of the Passion. She was beatified in 2002. Very Good .

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Book number: 193407

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Claudia Devaux and George Bernard Wong

Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China

Chicago, Loyola Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 206p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Wong, a Chinese Jesuit, was put in prison for 25 years by the Communist Chinese because of his religious faith. Contains black and white photographs. .

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Book number: 143083

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M.C. Devine

The World's Cardinal

Boston, St. Paul Editions, 1964. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 356p. INSCRIBED BY CARDINAL CUSHING. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. The binding is cockeyed, but still tight. Corners and tips of spine are lightly rubbed, and there is faint foxing on the top edge. Patchy tanning on the endpapers; otherwise clean. The jacket has a few small worn spots along the edges, but is essentially intact. A biography of Richard James Cushing (1895-1970), an American cardinal and Archbishop of Boston. This copy is inscribed and signed by Cardinal Cushing on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with a lengthy section of black and white photographs. Very Good .

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Book number: 189497

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Anthony H. Deye

Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of Cincinnati: Pre-CIVIL War Years

Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame, Department of History, 1959. Hardcover. 465p. A large, thick hardcover book bound in black buckram. Very good condition overall. Publication date on title page was corrected by hand. Page 360 is not bound, but instead folded in half and tucked inside, as if originally omitted by mistake and added in later. Otherwise clean and tight. A Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of Notre Dame. Measures approx. 11.25" x 9. Very Good .

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Book number: 193481

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Ernest Dimnet

My New World

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1937. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 396p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Gutters of endpapers are tanned. Back cover has a pale streak across the middle. Otherwise clean and tight. The dustjacket has rubbed edges, and the back is tanned, but otherwise, the jacket is in very good condition. A continuation of Father Dimnet's autobiography begun in MY OLD WORLD. .

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Book number: 142441

Catalogue: Catholic Biography