Anecdotes and examples

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Рипол Классик - History
Selected and arranged by rev. Francis Spirago professor of theology. Supplemented, adapted to the baltimore catechism, and edited by rev. James J. Baxter, D.D. autor of "sermons from the latins," ect.
 

Contents

PREFACE
3
And then?
9
The Unbelieving Father at his Sons Deathbed
15
The Marvels of Astronomy
21
The Boy and the Apples
26
St Clare of Montefalco
32
The Word of a Missionary
38
Pope Leo confronts Attila
44
A Warriors Anxiety to Receive Extreme Unction
323
Pastor Kneipps Watercure
329
12
334
The Divorce of King Henry VIII
335
The True Catholic Marriage
341
The Emperor Constantines Vision
347
Holy Water and the Grasshoppers
353
after the Battle of Leipzig
359

Happiness on Earth and in Heaven
50
The Spring and the Stream
54
LESSON SIXTH
61
The Bear and the Honey
67
The Shepherd and the Ram
73
The Joint Debate
79
The Holy House of Nazareth 688855
85
The Fruit of the Promised Land
87
The Rocks of Calvary
93
The Forty Martyrs
99
St Antony the Hermit
105
Two Pictures
111
The Buried Money
112
The Two Rings
119
The Foolhardy Stag
126
A Railway Inspector as Signalman
132
Individual Exposition of Scripture
138
The Distracted Minister
144
ON THE SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL
150
The Testimony of Goethe
156
The Baptismal Robe as a Shroud
162
How an Infant was lost
171
Two Persons dispossessed by Confirmation
177
The Soldier and the Orphan
183
Socrates and Xantippe
189
A Newfoundland Dog saves his Master
195
St Ignatius of Loyola and Two Vessels
201
The Countess as a Mendicant
207
The Snowwhite Doves
211
The Three Stations
218
The Devils Restitution
224
The Representation of the Ecce Homo
231
LESSON NINETEENTH
238
The Frog that Burst
243
St Angela of Foligna
250
La Salette
256
The Emperor Francis I Acts as Guide
262
The Testimony of a Criminal
269
The Last Kreutzer for the Homeless
275
The Pharisee and the Publican
280
A Protestant Idea of Indulgences
286
The Institution of the Holy Eucharist
292
A Queen Gives up her Carriage to a Priest
298
The First Bad Communion
305
ON THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
311
10
314
A Prince Declines to have Honor Shown him in Church
317
13
362
The Beggarman at the Royal Table
365
The Servant who Relied on her Own Powers
369
The Soldiers Prayer
375
16
379
In Deed and in Truth
381
The Bishops Walkingstick
387
The Children of Naumburg
393
Joseph the Patriarch and King David
399
The Destroyer of Idols
404
The Fourteenth Guest Proves a Thief
410
The Testimony of Voltaire
416
LESSON THIRTYFIRST
424
Purgatory in Painting
430
The Emperors Effigy on the Coins of the Realm
436
FROM THE SECOND TO THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
438
The Good Faith of Frederic the Fair
444
A Magnanimous King
452
The Two Shoemakers
459
Children may sometimes Teach their Parents
465
The Gift of a Maidens Ilair
473
The Empress Maria Theresas Visit to the Military School
474
Gustavus Adolphus and the Officers
480
The Splinter of Wood
486
FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE END OF THE TENTH COMMANDMENT
493
The Death of Three Robbers
499
A New Style of Duel
505
The Loss of a Hand
508
The Monk and the Robber
514
Cardinal Lavigerie at the Depot
520
The Pillow and the Stone
526
The Monk and the Wind
532
A Slight Offense Severely Punished
538
It is Now too Late
541
LESSON THIRTYSIXTH
552
A Family Dispersed and Reunited
558
ON THE LAST JUDGMENT AND the Resurrection HELL PUR
564
A Loaf of Bread Turns the Scale
570
A Perilous Situation
573
After Six
579
Hercules at the Crossroads
585
174
589
19
590
356
593
327
594
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