About the book: A description of the marvellous influence exercised by St Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419) on his age is not the principal design of the work which we offer to the public. In an admirable biography of this great man, the Abbé Bayle has traced out the most salient points in his character; to reproduce therefore in the following pages the picture which he has drawn, would be foreign to our purpose.
Our intention, then, is rather to initiate the pious public, and especially the Dominican family, into the intimate life and heroic virtues of the man of God, in order that they may imitate him, according to the degree of perfection to which each soul is divinely called.
Hence the division of the book into three parts. The first is historical. The abridged picture of the life of the Saint which we present to our readers, embodies in it all that we consider suitable to edify souls. The second part treats of the secrets of the interior life unveiled by the Saint in his "Treatise on the Spiritual Life," as well as of the particular methods which he taught, of sanctifying the essential acts of a Christian. The third part contains the principal exercises which may be performed in honour of St Vincent Ferrer: viz those of the Fridays before and after his Feast, those of his Novena, and some special prayers.
St Vincent Ferrer of the Order of Friar Preachers: Life, Spiritual Teaching, and Practical Devotions (1875) was translated from the French by the Rev Fr T A Dixon, Ord Præd. The French original received its imprimatur in 1863.
* This edition is digitized by Google and contains missing pages and they are pages 144-145, 176-177, 208-209, 252-253, 284-285, 316-317, 364-365 and 380-381.
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