Catholic Saints 

A moving and dramatic account of the great apostle of the nineteenth century. The patron saint against cancer was a great preacher, a prophet and author of innumerable books. He was an active spiritual leader in his native Catalonia, later in the Canary Islands, Cuba and in all parts of Spain, where he was prominent in court circles, confessor to the queen, and deeply involved in the persecutions and battles of the Church and State.

He was brought up a humble worker in the weaving industry and never lost his love of simple talk. During his infancy and youth he escaped death by accident three times, and on at least four occasions he miraculously escaped death at the hands of assassins. His miracles of healing were many, among them the famed posthumous (in 1934) cure of breast cancer of a Claretian nun, Sister Mary Josephine Marin, of Santiago, Cuba.

He was one of the earliest to prophesy the spread of Communism and its threat of world annihilation. Pope Pius IX called him "the precursor of Catholic Action." He was the founder of The Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (The Claretians). They were established in Vich in 1849, and have extended their congregations to the four corners of the earth. There are now two American Provinces, with twenty-eight houses and residences in the states of Texas, California, Arizona, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and Canada.

Taken from the inside flaps.

Introduction by Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston and a Preface by Fr. Manuel Milagro, C.M.F.