Anecdotes and examplesРипол 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 |
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356 | 593 |
327 | 594 |
Common terms and phrases
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