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Original translation from the Latin text of the Commentary of
Cornelius aLapide on Titus, Philemon, and Hebrews by Michael Miller  - 498 pages Sewn Hardcover

Hebrews is one of Saint Paul's most important epistles and is theologically complex. Even though he was the Apostle to the Gentiles, he penned this for his Hebrew Christians in order to strengthen their knowledge and resolve in the face of persecution from their fellow unconverted Hebrews.

ILLUSTRATED - 84 Pages by E. Virginia Newell

St. Margaret of Hungary, OP (Margit in Hungarian; January
27, 1242 – January 18, 1270) was a Dominican nun and the daughter of
King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. The 8th child of ten, she was
the younger sister of St. Kinga of Poland (Kunegunda) and St. Yolanda of Poland
and, through her father, the niece of the famed St. Elizabeth of Hungary. She was
a member of the illustrious Arpad family who gave many great rulers and saints to
the world over 300 years. Among them are the famous King St. Stephen crowned
in 1000 AD as well as St. Irene, and two other St. Elizabeths.

Margaret was born during the Mongol invasion of Hungary (1241–42). Her
parents vowed that if Hungary was liberated from the Mongols, they would
dedicate the child to religion. The three year old Margaret was entrusted by her
parents to the Dominican monastery at Veszprém in 1245. Six years later she
was transferred to the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin founded by her parents on
Nyulak Szigete (Rabbit Island) near Buda (today Margaret Island, named after her,
and a part of Budapest; the ruins of the monastery can still be seen). She spent the
rest of her life there, dedicating herself to religion and opposing all attempts of her
father to arrange a political marriage for her with King Ottokar II of Bohemia.

She lived in total humility, engaging in the most menial tasks even in the winter
when her hands bled from the cold. She constantly fasted and refused nice clothes
and royal comforts, remarking that she preferred the odor of sanctity when dead
to smelling sweet only when alive. She spent her days in prayer, in devotion to
the Eucharist, and caring for the poor, lavishing on them whatever gifts her
royal family sent her.

This is her story.