James Cardinal Gibbons was Archbishop of Baltimore when he asked Mother Loyola to write this story of the Life of our Lord. As a revered author himself—and considering the number of such stories available even then—we can only imagine the admiration he must have held for Mother Loyola's rare talent for narrative.
She does not disappoint. Beginning with Creation itself, Mother Loyola unfolds the history of Salvation, to show how all God's dealings with mankind prepare the way for the coming of the Redeemer. This paves the way for a Life of Christ that bears the weight of understanding not merely what Our Lord did, but Who He is, why He came, and why He must be both God and Man. After all, the end goal of this monumental undertaking is not just to familiarize children with the events of the Gospel, but to anchor their faith in Our Lord's Divinity and draw their hearts to Him in personal love.
As always, she brings each scene to life with such vivid detail that children will feel almost as if they were following the dusty paths our Saviour trod.
Now enhanced with an abundance of contemporary engravings and lithographs, this newly typeset edition is an invaluable means of impressing upon the minds of young children the reality of our God become Man.
This book is also available in Spanish!
5.5" x 8.5" paperback 460 pages
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