THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS BEING A PLAIN EXPOSITION AND VINDICATION By JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS Archbishop of Baltimore Seventy-eighth Carefully Revised and Enlarged Edition Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1904, BY JOHN MURPHY COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1895, BY JOHN MURPHY & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, BY JOHN MURPHY & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, BY JOHN MURPHY & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. TRADE MARK REGISTERED IN U. S. PATENT OFFICE PREFACE TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION. The first edition of "The Faith of Our Fathers" was issued in December, 1876. From that time to the present fifty thousand copies of the work have been disposed of in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, and in the British Colonies of Oceanica. This gratifying result has surpassed the author's most sanguine expectations, and is a consoling evidence that the investigation of religious truths is not wholly neglected even in this iron age, so engrossed by material considerations. Besides carefully revising the book, the author has profited by the kind suggestion of some friends, and inserted a chapter on the prerogatives and sanctity of the Blessed Virgin, which, it is hoped, will be not less acceptable to his readers than the other portions of the work. He is also happy to announce that German editions have been published both in this country and in Germany. He takes this occasion to return his hearty thanks to the editors of the Catholic periodicals, as well as of the secular press, for their favorable notices, which have no doubt contributed much to the large circulation of the book. BALTIMORE, Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1879. |