In The Age of Martyrs, the famous Catholic historian Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti records the epochal events of Roman history from the rise of Diocletian (284) to the death of Constantine the Great (337), a period which witnessed the last and greatest of the 10 persecutions of the Christians by the Roman government. Impr. 305 pgs.
Let adventure stories and a variety of activities introduce your primary-grade children to the lives and works of more than a dozen of the Catholic Church’s “all stars”: its greatest saints.
Now they can learn about:
Completing mazes, connecting the dots, finding and telling, and figuring out match-up puzzles (and more!), all add up to one single reason Teach Me About Saints is so effective: it’s fun! Better still, those mazes, dots, and other challenges make the learning memorable.
And the follow-up questions after each story make it easy for a teacher or parent to talk to a child about that particular saint. Paper, 24 pages. Our Sunday Visitor Fall 2003 Quantity