Catholic Legends

Annotation

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. On the minds of the young they are calculated to exercise a most beneficial influence. Provided that due care is taken to impress upon the growing intelligence the true character and weight of these legends, they will tend to feed the imagination with that nourishment which it ardently desires, and which it is most impor tant to supply to it, in immediate connection with the realities of the invisible world, and not with purely secular romance and poetry alone. In some cases the narratives have been thrown into a more dramatic shape than that in which they are to be found in their original forms. And if the same plan has not been followed with all, we must claim the pri vilege of a story-teller, and ask leave to tell our tales in whatever style and fashion the nature of each has seemed to require. A very few of the following stories have before ap peered in an English form, though not 'dentical with their present shape.