Magnifi-cat

By Edmund Sheehan and Carolyn Sheehan

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859400778
• ISBN13: 9780859400770
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Milton House Books
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Magnificent Magnificat

This story will stick with you. When St. Peter opens the gate to a cat/maximal saint -- trouble follows. Satan sees an opportunity to disrupt Heaven -- unless the cat's life story can be traced. Worth the purchase price -- a must-have volume!

Glad to finally find this text

After reading this book as a third-grader, it stayed with me all my life. Now as a 40-year-old High School English Teacher and soon to be Media Specialist, I was delighted to finally find my very own copy of this wonderful story of a pet's unconditional love, which earns him a rainbow colored halo and the title of "Maximal saint." Another juvenile text called Leo the Magnificat is a non-fiction based story about a similar church cat.

magnificat

How well I remembered the story of Nemrod, the cat who was became a maximal saint and caused such chaos in heaven/for St. Peter! It was just as wonderful reading this book as an adult as it was when I was a kid!

A blessing of a book!

This was one of the first books I found that could treat of Heaven without getting sugary. As the story opens, St. Peter is alerted that the first maximal saint (the highest honor) in centuries is arriving at the Pearly Gates. The trumpets resound, the angelic choir swells ... and in walks a cat, who looks at the whole thing as ... well, as a cat would. As St. Peter, being a fisherman, wrestles with his dislike of cats, we see, in flashback, the story of how the feline came to such a pass. A beautiful piece of work!

Great Kid's Book!

I read this book as a kid and hunted all over for a copy. The story centers around a maximal saint coming to heaven for the first time in many years. St Peter doesn't know what to do when he opens the pearly gates and in walks a cat. It's a great good vs. evil story that explains the ultimate sacrifice anyone can give. I loved it as much as an adult as I did as a kid!!