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With so much to learn about this wonderful saint it is easy to see how the whole world loves St. Nicholas!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImpr 1954, 71 page booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Refuge of Sinners Publishing, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44409926582355,"sku":"N-SANTA","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/0205\/6019\/files\/N-SANTA.jpg?v=1775452644"},{"product_id":"bethlehem-father-faber","title":"Bethlehem - Father Faber","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Father Faber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sacred Infancy of Our Most Dear and Blessed Redeemer is the foundation of all creation. Father Faber explores the hidden meanings of Our Lord's incarnation, birth, infancy, and early life and expands his theme to a wide-ranging discourse on the entire Catholic Faith from the point of view of the Sacred Infancy. Nothing that Jesus did or allowed Himself to undergo is without meaning, and Father Faber explores those hidden meanings with a depth one would hardly believe possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImpr 1955, 432 page book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Refuge of Sinners Publishing, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44410093273171,"sku":"N-BET","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/0205\/6019\/files\/n-bet.jpg?v=1775457859"},{"product_id":"the-true-meaning-of-christmas","title":"The True Meaning of Christmas","description":"\u003cdiv\u003ePerfect reading for families during Christmas time. Lovely illustrations to catch the attention of little ones and a message for adults and older children on the true meaning of Christmas from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. His rendition of the Christmas story is wonderful to read to the whole family! Beautiful illustrations to inspire the imagination!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e30 page booklet. 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Retold by Catherine Beebe. Impr, 1940. This small book, written in simple language for a child, is a \"retelling of the Christmas Story is offered to the greater glory of Him Whose Birthday it celebrates!\" Ten full page line drawings keep the interest of the child. 48 page booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mother of Our Savior Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44410154647635,"sku":"N-TCST","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/0205\/6019\/files\/N-TCST.jpg?v=1775463858"},{"product_id":"and-heaven-numbered-one-more-angel","title":"And Heaven Numbered One More Angel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Wonderful Christmas of Theresa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Brother George, F.I.C. Impr 1944.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheresa was a young girl in a poverty stricken family, with a dying mother and no money to buy needed medication. It would seem that only a miracle could solve this problem, and that is what she got, but in a such a way one would not expect. This book, written at a child’s level, is very sentimental and will touch young and old alike. Parents can read and discuss this book with their young children as many moral lessons are brought out. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e32 pages, 6 color, full page pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Refuge of Sinners Publishing, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44410154909779,"sku":"N-HNMA","price":9.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/0205\/6019\/files\/N-HNMA.jpg?v=1775463878"},{"product_id":"father-brennans-christmas-storybook","title":"Father Brennan's Christmas Storybook","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Rev. Gerald T. Brennan. Impr. 1957.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFather Brennan spent his life  specializing in telling interesting stories to the young. 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It contains the Christmas story as found in the various Evangelists, and seventeen sermons actually preached throughout the years, with some extent the sermons form has been deliberately retained,but it is hoped that the sermons have been sufficiently adapted for ordinary reading. It is the fond hope of the author that it maymake the Christmas story, and what it implies, better known to both Catholics and non-Catholics, and by doing so, bring them closer to God and to His Son, Jesus Christ. Pictures covering the life of Christ have been chosen to make the matter more vivid and real. May the book go forth with the blessing of this same Christ upon it!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImpr, 1947, 131 page book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mother of Our Savior Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44410321600595,"sku":"N-SSET","price":13.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/0205\/6019\/files\/N-SSET_1.jpg?v=1775471009"},{"product_id":"christmas-and-the-saints","title":"Christmas and the Saints","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since that night nearly two thousand years ago when the Infant Savior of the World smiled up from a manger in a poor village in Judea, men’s hearts have gladdened at the angel’s good tidings and their eyes have turned toward Bethlehem for a glimpse of the Divine Child. This is the story of how those good tidings reached us, of how they passed from land to land and from saint to saint, of how Christmas customs sprang up from the hearts of people of every land. 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