Saint Francis Solano : wonder-worker of the new world and apostle of Argentina and Peru. [Mayor's Son; Friar John's Temptation; Secret; Michael Faces Death; Fighting the Plague; America; New Home in Talavera; Year in Trujillo; The Great Sermon]

Rockford, Illinois : Tan Books and Publishers, 1994, 1946., 1994. Very Good. ix, 213 pp. ; illustrations, map ; 21 cm. ; "Stories of the Saints for young people ages 10 to 100" ; ISBN: 0895554313; 9780895554314 LCCN: 93-61380 ; Originally published in 1946 by Sheed & Ward. ; Dewey: 200 ; OCLC: 4188239 ; illustrated by Gedge Harmon ; "Philip II, King of Spain, desired to send priests to South America in order to evangelise the native Indians. Francis was chosen for this purpose, and, with a party of priests, set sail in the year 1589. After leaving Panama the ship was overtaken by a storm, and being thought no longer safe was abandoned by the crew; but Francis, taking pity on the unhappy creatures left behind, many of whom were blacks and unbaptised, resolved to share their fate. For some days the ship bore up; but after a time a portion was split away, the hinder portion sinking, and the fore part, upon which the Saint was found, still remained afloat, until a boat came to their relief and conveyed the remaining portion of its unhappy crew to shore. Here their troubles were far from being at an end. It was a barren coast upon which they were landed, and it needed all the Saint's patience and skill to prevent fierce quarrels over the scanty food which was found, and often he appeased the hunger of the famishing wretches by a miraculous drawing of fish to shore. A crew was sent back to Panama in a small boat, and after sixty days a ship returned and conveyed them back to safety. St. Francis then began missionary life in earnest. Peru and Tucuman were the principal scenes of his labour; but the last five years he preached chiefly at Lima"--Legends of the Blessed Sacrament ; "pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; crease on cover ; slight wear, else VG