"Bernadette Soubrious was chosen out of all the earth to proclaim the Immaculate Conception to the world by the Immaculate Conception herself, and with this solemn proclamation of the Immaculate Conception she is indissolubly linked throughout all future ages. But the Immaculate Conception is the sole national Patron of the American Church. Moreover, America is the only large nation - as far as my information goes, the only nation - on earth that possesses the Immaculate Conception for its National Patron. In a very particular sense, therefore, America is bound to the Immaculate Conception as no other nation on earth. But the ties which bind the American Church to the Immaculate Conception bind it necessarily to Bernadette, whom the Immaculate Conception so uniquely linked to herself and chose for her evangelist and apostle." - Cardinal James Gibbons (+ 1834-1921) St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals!' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty!" We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is a photographic reprint of the original The original has been inspected and many imperfections in the existing copy have been corrected. At Saint Pius X Press our goal is to remain faithful to the original in both photographic reproductions and in textual reproductions that are reprinted. Photographic reproductions are given a page by page inspection, whereas textual reproductions are proofread to correct any errors in reproduction.