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These stories of animals and saints, taken from the Desert Fathers and the Celtic saints, were first translated and made available by Helen Waddell more than half a century ago. Ester de Waal now introduces these personages to a new audience that will be equally beguiled by the world they evoke.
Readers meet a range of creatures, from lions and hyenas, otters and hares, to a mouse, a fly, and a frog. All creatures, whether they be big or small, beautiful or not, are given their own voices, and, in reading about their relationships with saints such as Columba, Jerome, Cuthbert, and Simeon Stylites, readers are taken back to the early days of the Christian heritage and the holistic spirituality that belongs to that world - a world in which miracles are commonplace and Christian legend comes to life.
Beasts and Saints
by Waddell, Helen; Gibbings, Robert; De Waal, EstherFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-11-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Table of Contents
| Translator's Note | |
| Introduction | |
| The Hermit's Garden in the Desert | p. 3 |
| The Penitent Wolf | p. 6 |
| The Blessed Ammon and the Dragons | p. 8 |
| St. Macarius of Alexandria and the Grateful Hyaena | p. 12 |
| St. Pachome, Abbot of Tabenne, and the Crocodiles | p. 15 |
| The Abbot Helenus and the Wild Ass | p. 17 |
| The Abbot Helenus and the Crocodile | p. 18 |
| St. Simeon Stylites and the Converted Dragon | p. 20 |
| The Unsociable Lion | p. 22 |
| The Abbot Gerasimus and the Lion | p. 23 |
| St. Jerome and the Lion and the Donkey | p. 27 |
| The Death of King Teudiric | p. 37 |
| St. Columba and the Crane | p. 40 |
| St. Columba and the White Horse | p. 42 |
| St. Columban in the Vosges | p. 46 |
| St. Malo and the Sow | p. 49 |
| St. Malo and the Wren | p. 51 |
| St. Cuthbert in the Sheiling | p. 52 |
| St. Cuthbert and the Otters | p. 55 |
| St. Cuthbert and the Ravens on the Farnes | p. 58 |
| St. Werburga or Chester and the Wild Geese | p. 63 |
| St. Benno and the Frog | p. 65 |
| St. Godric at Finchale | p. 67 |
| St. Godric's Garden and the Wild Deer | p. 73 |
| St. Godric and St. John the Baptist's Salmon | p. 76 |
| St. Godric and the Hare | p. 79 |
| St. Godric and the Hunted Stag | p. 82 |
| St. Cuthbert's Birds and Bartholomew, the Hermit of Farne | p. 84 |
| St. Ciaran and the Nesting Bird | p. 89 |
| St. Ciaran and Brother Fox and Brother Badger | p. 91 |
| St. Moling and the Fox | p. 96 |
| St. Brendan and the Sea Monsters | p. 98 |
| St. Brendan and the Sea-Cat | p. 100 |
| St. Brendan and the White Birds | p. 102 |
| St. Cainnic and the Mice | p. 106 |
| St. Cainnic and the Sea-Birds | p. 107 |
| St. Cainnic and the Stag | p. 108 |
| St. Kevin and the Cow | p. 109 |
| St. Kevin and the Wild Boar | p. 113 |
| St. Kevin and the Rooks of Glendalough | p. 116 |
| The Mountains that are Creatures of God | p. 118 |
| St. Kevin and the Blackbird | p. 121 |
| St. Ciaran of Clonmacnoise and the Stag | p. 122 |
| St. Colman and the Cock, the Mouse, and the Fly | p. 127 |
| Sources | p. 131 |
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