MARY, THE HELP OF CHRISTIANS
MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS
AND THE
Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers
Instructions, Legends, Novenas and Prayers
WITH
Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year
COMPILED BY
REV. BONAVENTURE HAMMER, O.F.M.
TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX ON THE
Reasonableness of Catholic Ceremonies and Practices
BY REV. JOHN J. BURKE
NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO
BENZIGER BROTHERS
PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE
PUBLISHERS OF BENZINGER'S MAGAZINE
FR. CHRYSOSTOMUS THEOBALD, O.F.M.,
Minister Provincialis.
Cincinnati, Ohio, die 30, Martii, 1908.
REMY LAPORT, S.T.L.,
Censor Librorum.
JOHN M. FARLEY,
Archbishop of New York.
NEW YORK, March 4, 1909.
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS.
PREFACE
THE contents of the following pages are based on the Catholic doctrine of the veneration and invocation of the saints, and of the efficacy of the prayer of intercession. The legends of the individual "Holy Helpers" were compiled from authors whose writings have the approval of the Church.
In compliance with the decrees of Pope Urban VIII of 1625, 1631, and 1634, the compiler formally declares that he submits everything contained in this little book to the infallible judgment of the Church,