Essay on the Interest and Characteristics of the Lives of the Saints

Name: Essay on the Interest and Characteristics of the Lives of the Saints
Author: Frederick William Faber

Frederick William Faber

Essay on the Interest and Characteristics of the Lives of the Saints, with Illustrations from Mystical Theology (1853): Faber's introduction to the Oratorian series of the Lives of the Modern Saints, on why the saints' lives edify, the devotional character of Italian, Spanish and French hagiography, the marvellous and the mystical in the saints' lives, and the use of such lives.

Source: The dedication and the essay. Running heads and page numbers are dropped; the OCR was cleaned of line-break hyphens and the commonest recognition slips, and isolated slips remain. Raw OCR in sources/en-US-originals/.