Pauline Jaricot: Foundress of the the Living Rosary and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith

by Mary Fabyan Windeatt

Overview

How tired and pale Pauline looked as the carriage rattled along! Everyone knew she had not long to live. But Pauline was going to ask the young martyr St. Philomena for a cure. At St. Philomena's shrine the townsfolk joined in begging a cure. There was no response, so they demanded a cure! This book tells what happened next, plus the many spiritual adventures that turned Pauline from a spoiled rich girl into one of the greatest lay apostles in the history of the Church. Impr. 244 pgs 21 Illus,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781505106978
Publisher:	TAN Books
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	8 - 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.