The Giant at the Ford: And Other Legends of the Saints

by Ursula Synge

Recounts the lives of both well-known and lesser-known saints, many of them women, including St. Christopher, St. George, St. William Firmatus, and St. Odilia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689501684
• ISBN13: 9780689501685
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Legends of the saints

This book is really enjoyable to read. But there needs to be an awareness that these are legends, or as Funk and Wagnalls defines that word, "An unauthenticated story from earlier times, preserved by tradition and popularly thought to be historical". The first story is about St. Christopher, which the Catholic church has indicated they are not sure really lived. Some stories seem well within the possibility of reality others don't. But, as the author says on the back cover, "If you were to ask me if these stories are true, I could only reply that if they are not, then they should be, for goodness, is true and so is humility and so is love, and if goodness and truth and humility and love cannot work wonders, then there may be no wonder in the world at all, but only cold facts and concrete." There is one picture for each of the 15 stories which vary from 7 to 16 pages in length. The stories cover the saints: Anthony.......Christopher.......George.......Isidore.......Jerome.......John-Joseph of the Cross .......Mochae.......Moling.......Odilia.......Paul.......Senan.......William Furmatus.......Sunniva.......Werburgh.......Wulfric.......Zita