The Holy Man of Tours: The Life of Leo DuPont (1797-1876), Apostle of the Holy Face Devotion

By Dorothy Scallan and Scallan

Book Overview

From Martinique to Tours, France, his life was guided toward successfully promoting this devotion. World famous for his miracles. One of the best books we have ever published Companion book: The Golden Arrow. 231 pgs, PB

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895553902
• ISBN13: 9780895553904
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Tan Books
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Review from the Publisher

The reader of this book will be rewarded far beyond what he might possibly anticipate. Contains one of the finest biographies of a Saint ever written, and the suspenseful story of the spread of the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. This devotion began in Tours, France, with the revelations to a young Carmelite nun named Sr. Mary of St. Peter during the 1840's. Before it was approved by the Church in 1885, Leo Dupont practiced the devotion privately in his home, where a true likeness of Veronica's veil was perpetually venerated by a burning lamp, and before which he would pray for hours on end. Soon miracles began to occur by the application of the oil from this lamp to sick people. There were so many miracles that Pope Pius IX declared Leo Dupont to be perhaps the greatest miracle-worker in Church history. From around the world people would write to Leo Dupont for some of the oil, often addressing him simply as "The Holy Man of Tours" Great reading!