tells us, "contains a simple outline of the saint's life, in which great care has been taken to insure historical accuracy. The reverse bears as its title a virtue characteristic of the saint, and comprises an exhortation, a maxim of the saint or of some spiritual writer; an illustrative anecdote; and finally a text from Scripture.
"Each section is intended to enforce the lesson taught by the life, much as the lections, chapter, hymn, and antiphon of the breviary narrate the history, extol the virtues, and implore the suffrages of the saint to whose Office they belong."
Butler's "Lives of the Saints" and Benziger Brothers' "Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints" are also recommended.
Let us cultivate the devotion, which consists in venerating, imitating, and invoking a particular saint for each day, and with this end in view read daily from the Lives of the Saints." The saints are our models in the following of Christ; they teach us the way of salvation; let us honor them, imitate their virtues, and invoke their intercession that we also may become saints.
