Here are colorful stories about the youthful years of some well-loved saints - Patrick, Genevieve, Thomas of Canterbury, Catherine of Siena, Angela Merici, Teresa of Avila, Charles Borromeo, Stanislaus, Aloysius, Germaine, and Louise de Marillac. These eleven young people began early to do great things for God. Ranging in time from the shepherd boy Patrick who converted the Irish fifteen centuries ago, to Louis de Marillac who by founding the Sisters of Charity contributed to the Church its first modern congregation of Sisters, the stories of these saints illuminate many eras and many lands.

Blanche Jennings Thompson is a well-known educator who holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Rochester and an honorary D. Litt. from Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y.

His Holiness Pope John XXIII has graciously imparted to the author and publishers of Vision Books His Apostolic Blessing. "In view of His ardent zeal for the spiritual welfare of all His children, the Sovereign Pontiff... cherishes the prayerful hope that these volumes may stimulate their readers to a greater desire for virtue and for the exemplary holiness of life which should characterize Catholic youth.
"As a mark of His paternal interest in this undertaking the Holy Father cordially imparts ... to the authors and publishers of the Vision Books His paternal Apostolic Blessing."
DOMENICO CARDINAL TARDINI
Secretary of State to His Holiness
July 4, 1959