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Title: Mary, Help of Christians
And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers:
Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the
Saints for Every Day in the Year

Author: Various

Contributor: John J. Burke

Editor: Bonaventure Hammer

Release Date: August 31, 2010 [EBook #33596]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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MARY, THE HELP OF CHRISTIANS

MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS
AND THE
Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers

Instructions, Legends, Novenas and Prayers
WITH
Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

COMPILED BY
REV. BONAVENTURE HAMMER, O.F.M.

TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX ON THE
Reasonableness of Catholic Ceremonies and Practices
BY REV. JOHN J. BURKE

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NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO
BENZIGER BROTHERS

PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE
PUBLISHERS OF BENZINGER'S MAGAZINE

Imprimi Permittitur.
FR. CHRYSOSTOMUS THEOBALD, O.F.M.,
_Minister Provincialis._
Cincinnati, Ohio, die 30, Martii, 1908.

Nihil Obstat.
REMY LAPORT, S.T.L.,
_Censor Librorum._

Imprimatur.
JOHN M. FARLEY,
Archbishop of New York.

NEW YORK, March 4, 1909.

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS.

PREFACE

THE contents of the following pages are based on the Catholic doctrine
of the veneration and invocation of the saints, and of the efficacy of
the prayer of intercession. The legends of the individual "Holy Helpers"
were compiled from authors whose writings have the approval of the
Church.

In compliance with the decrees of Pope Urban VIII of 1625, 1631, and
1634, the compiler formally declares that he submits everything
contained in this little book to the infallible judgment of the Church,
and that he claims no other than human credibility for the facts,
legends, and miracles related, except where the Church has otherwis