Among the interesting facets of sharing a church building with a Roman Catholic congregation is the literature that sometimes gets left about. The other day I spotted a small collection of children's books, among which was volume 12 of Fr Lawrence Lovasik's Books of Saints. Volume 12, no less. Fr Lovasik was an extremely prolific clerical author with a passion for bringing the treasures of Church culture to the attention of its younger members, mainly through these little books.The Book of Saints is of the same vintage as the great days of Ladybird Books, but its illustrations aim at something different: a sense of grandeur. The book doesn't credit its illustrator by name, but I get the strange but distinct impression that he or she was seeking inspiration in the mid-twentieth century cinema. See whether you find the same.
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