Crosses and crowns : from the supplement of The Catholic missions
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- Title
- Crosses and crowns : from the supplement of The Catholic missions
- Author
- Rev Joseph Spillmann
- Publication year listed
- 1926
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- Public domain eBook
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Crosses and crowns : from the supplement of The Catholic missions
Author: Spillmann, Joseph, 1842-1905
Year: 1926
Collected by Rev. Joseph Spillmann; translated by Mary Richards Gray. Tales of foreign lands: a series of stories for the young, vol. IX. Summary: "The story opens with a scene from the pages of history: The Emperor Tue-Dueck, a terrible persecutor of Christians, lay dying. The young Christian page, Thuan, is at the Emperor's bedside and tells him how he may yet defeat the dragon tormenting him and obtain eternal life, holding out to him a crucifix. The emperor's rage at the sight of the cross earns the boy a flogging, and soon a new persecution is unleashed. The Christian spirit shines through in all his actions in this mission land where bloody persecution is still a threat to those who hold the faith of Christ."--TrasuresOfTradition.com