Description:The bishop who makes mercy flights over New Guinea, the sister who discovered a vaccine to prevent leprosy, the priest who ruled a jungle tribe in Burma during World War II -- these are some of the crusaders of our time. And the adventures of these missionaries are every bit as exciting and inspiring as those of the medieval crusaders.This collection of true adventure stories casts a new and vvital light on today's missionaries, those far messengers of God throughout the world. The seventeen heroes and heroines of this book represent many orders of the Church; they are natives of many countries -- the United States, Italy, Ireland, Sudan, France; they do their remarkable work all over the globe from the Arctic to Okinawa and from Peru to Pakistan.To read Modern Crusaders is to watch Father Lesage wrestle a nine-pound python on the African Gold Coast, to pace the cell of a Chinese communist prison with Father McGrath, to trudge the frozen north country with Bishop Coudert, to suffer the hardships and share the joys of missionaries the world over.THE AUTHORS: John Travers Moore and Rosemarian V. Staudacher, both former editors of The Junior Catholic Messenger, are natives of Ohio. Mr. Moore, a former lawyer, is the author of Sing-Along Sary, Big Saints, and Little Saints. Both he and Mrs. Staudacher have written for a score of publications, including many children's magazines. Mrs. Staudacher is a graduate of Our Lady of Cincinnati College and the Marquette University School of Journalism. She is now a member of the Marquette University News Bureau.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Crusaders (Vision Books, #18). To get started finding Modern Crusaders (Vision Books, #18), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: The bishop who makes mercy flights over New Guinea, the sister who discovered a vaccine to prevent leprosy, the priest who ruled a jungle tribe in Burma during World War II -- these are some of the crusaders of our time. And the adventures of these missionaries are every bit as exciting and inspiring as those of the medieval crusaders.This collection of true adventure stories casts a new and vvital light on today's missionaries, those far messengers of God throughout the world. The seventeen heroes and heroines of this book represent many orders of the Church; they are natives of many countries -- the United States, Italy, Ireland, Sudan, France; they do their remarkable work all over the globe from the Arctic to Okinawa and from Peru to Pakistan.To read Modern Crusaders is to watch Father Lesage wrestle a nine-pound python on the African Gold Coast, to pace the cell of a Chinese communist prison with Father McGrath, to trudge the frozen north country with Bishop Coudert, to suffer the hardships and share the joys of missionaries the world over.THE AUTHORS: John Travers Moore and Rosemarian V. Staudacher, both former editors of The Junior Catholic Messenger, are natives of Ohio. Mr. Moore, a former lawyer, is the author of Sing-Along Sary, Big Saints, and Little Saints. Both he and Mrs. Staudacher have written for a score of publications, including many children's magazines. Mrs. Staudacher is a graduate of Our Lady of Cincinnati College and the Marquette University School of Journalism. She is now a member of the Marquette University News Bureau.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Crusaders (Vision Books, #18). To get started finding Modern Crusaders (Vision Books, #18), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.