Continue the celebration of All Hallows Eve all through Hallowtide! This collection brings together devotions for All Saints' Day and its octave from traditional Catholic sources. Includes ancient favorites like the Mass prayers from the feast, hymns from Vespers, and the Litany of the Saints, as well as new devotions in a traditional style, like the Little Hours of all Saints and the Litany of Our Lady, Queen of the Saints. Invoke the protection of all heaven with these powerful prayers.

A tribute to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, this moral allegory examines the limits of natural science and the supernatural reality of the soul. A bright young zoology professor arrives at a prestigious Long Island college filled with jaded, materialistic scientists. But in a tower high above their heads, the college's angelic heiress devotedly watches over a collection of handmade animals made of a more mysterious stuff than cloth and string.

The Life of Ascanius, son of Aeneas and founder of Alba Longa.

A new Epic Poem set in ancient Italy, the Laviniad tells the story of bronze-age Lavinium right after the death of the Trojan War hero Aeneas. His young son Ascanius is thrust to the fore as leader of the Trojan emigrants and native Latins, now threatened by the bloodthirsty Etruscan tyrant Mezentius. Meanwhile Aeneas's faithful widow Lavinia conceals a secret that drives her to flee the safety of the city past the swords of the enemy and into the Italian wilderness.

This set features special Carnival editions of three of our seasonal volumes in the colors of the liturgy and the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade: Epiphany gold, Post-Epiphany green, and Septuagesima purple.

A Translation of the Sancti Augustini Vita by Possidius, Bishop of Calama
Herbert T. Weiskotten, translator (1919)

This little biography written by his intimate friend Possidius, bishop of Calama, provides crucial information on Augustine’s life after his baptism. In straightforward, unadorned prose, Possidius shows Augustine as a powerful intellect, voluminous writer, and compelling orator who humbly endured the everyday trials and difficulties of life as a bishop in Roman Africa.