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Angela Verne.
Fugitive Saint.
Published London: Catholic Book Club, 1961.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: the Catholic Printing Co., Farnworth.
Size: 127×190×23mm.
Page count: 206pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is rather ragged at its edges and corners, and a bit discoloured on the spine; some wear and fading on the edges of the boards and spine; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 261g.

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Contents: presents an imaginative recreation of the life of St. Dympna (7th century), patron saint of the mentally handicapped. “The book has taken four years of research and hard work, though it finally came forth as if dictated by Dympna herself”.
Appendix: From the litany of St. Dympna.

Illustrations: double-sided monochrome frontispiece
Maps & plans: no

Notes: infrequent, at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: no

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