These splendid priests.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography; Priests
Notes: Reprint of the 1926 ed.
Table of contents: title: St. Benedict, founder of the Rule of St. Benedict, by C. F. de Tryon, Comte de Montalembert.; title: Friar William de Rubruquis, explorer and traveler in the Orient; his journal, translated by J. Mandeville.; title: Friar Odoric, missionary traveler in the East; his journal, translated by J. Mandeville.; title: St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus; from the Life by Father Bouhours, translated by J. Dryden. Life work of Ignatius Loyola.; title: St. Francis Xavier, apostle to the Indies; from the Life by Father Bouhours, translated by J. Dryden. Missionary labors of St. Francis Xavier, by J. Schurhammer.; title: Father James Marquette, explorer of the Mississippi and missionary to the Indians of North America, by J. G. Shea.; title: St. Vincent de Paul, founder of charitable orders, by F. Goldie.; title: Father Isaac Jogues, missionary to the Iroquois, by C. J. Devine.; title: Father Jerome Lobo, missionary to Abyssinia; account of his voyages, translated by S. Johnson.; title: Friar Junipero Serra, founder of the missions of California, by H. H. Bancroft. The work of Friar Junipero Serra, by Z. Engelhardt.; title: Father John MacEnery, pioneer palaeontologist, by J. J. Walsh. Other priest anthropologists, by H. G. Osborn.