In God's Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children
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This collection retells a selection of saints' lives in simple language for young readers, framing holiness with a garden metaphor that compares saints to flowers. Each short narrative presents a saint's virtues, trials, and acts of charity or faith—figures such as Ursula, Benedict, Christopher, Catherine, Augustine, Cecilia, Nicholas, George, Francis, and others—and highlights moral lessons suitable for children. The prose is paired with reproductions of Italian religious paintings that illustrate episodes and moods, and the arrangement favors brief, devotional stories intended to model Christian piety and service.
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