The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

""PEEFACETo THE ELEVENTH EDITION.E first edition ofissued in December, 1876.present fifty thousand copiesThe Faith of our FatherswasFrom that time to theof the work have beendisposed of in the United States, Canada, Great Britainand Ireland, and in the British Colonies of Oceanica.This gratifying result has surpassed the author smost sanguine expectations, and is a consoling evidence that the investigation of religious truths isnotiron age, so much enwholly neglected, even in thisgrossed by material considerations.Besides carefully revising the book, the author hasprofited by the kind suggestion of some friends,inserting a chapter on the prerogatives and sanctityof the Blessed Virgin, which, it ishoped, will be notless acceptable to his readers than the other portionsof the work.He is also happy to announce that German Editionshave been published both in this country and in Germany.He takes this occasion to return his hearty thanksto the editors of the Catholic periodicals, as well as ofthe secular press, for their favorable notices, whichhave no doubt contributed much to the large circulation of the book.BALTIMORE, Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1879.by