The Lives of the Saints Volume 1 - St. Patrick's Basilica

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June 28th, 1895.
ADVERTISEMENT.
NOTWITHSTANDING that several editions of Butler's Lives of the Saints
have been issued from the American press, and circulated extensively
throughout the United States, yet the publishers of the present one are
led to believe that there are vast numbers of persons still unsupplied,
and desirous of possessing a work so replete with instruction and
edification for Christian families. This edition is reprinted from the
best London edition, without the omission of a single line or citation
from the original. To render the work as complete as possible, we have
added the Lives of St. Alphonsus Liguori, and other Saints canonized
since the death of the venerable author, and not included in any former
edition. This edition also contains the complete notes of the author,
which have been shamefully omitted in an edition published by a
Protestant firm of this city.
The present edition is illustrated with fine steel engravings of many of
the Saints, and when bound will form four very handsome volumes, uniform
with the Life of Christ, and the Life of the Blessed Virgin.
THE PUBLISHER
NEW YORK, _Sept._, 1895.
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PREFACE
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"THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS" is republished. This work--this inestimable
work, is at length given to the public. Hitherto the circulation of it
was confined to those who could afford to purchase it in TWELVE volumes,
and at a proportionate price. It is now stereotyped, printed in good
character, on fine paper, and published at a price not only below its
value, but below the hopes of the publisher. It is therefore now, and
for the first time, that "THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS" are, properly
speaking, given to the public.
And what is the nature and character of this work, which is thus placed
within the reach of almost every family in Ireland? We presume to say,
that "The Lives of the Saints" is an historical supplement to the Old
and New Testaments; an illustration of all that God has revealed, and of
all the sanctity which his divine grace has produced among the children