St. John Eudes

[From the book's back cover]

"St. John Eudes wrote these profoundly affective pages not only for the educators of young Christian women in his own time but for all time. What better example for the education of Catholic maidens than the most admirable early life of Mary, the "glory of Israel," as she advanced in wisdom and grave in the days of her preparation for her divine maternity. 

"Fr. Eudes wishes the faithful to behold the "New Eve," conceived of such holy parents, Joachim and Anne, and reflect upon her perfect charity, her manifold virtues and her uninterrupted contemplation from the moment of her Immaculate Conception to her consuming "fiat," which truly compelled, in a most wonderful way, the Son of God to come and "rest within her tabernacle." 

"This study of the holy childhood of the Mother of God is exactly what the title says. To be sure, other works, based upon private revelation, treat of the Blessed Virgin's early years, but there is no book that specifically treats of the holiness itself of the wondrous child, accumulating its mass of material from the inspired revelation of the Sacred Scriptures, the liturgical use of the same (as applied by the Church to Our Lady's feast days) and the common testimony of our Catholic fathers and doctors."

Such a Marian book could not remain out of print for long, and so in 1998, PCP assisted in the reprinting of this 1915 English edition.