Brendan Lehane

An illustrated retelling of the exploits of such famous legendary heroes as Cuchulain, Finn Mac Cumal, Sigurd, and the knights of King Arthur's Round Table.

Legends of Valor

Singers at the world's dawn--Masters of forbidden arts--The shadowy sisterhood.

Wizards and Witches

Retells the stories of Christ's birth, Christmas trolls, ghosts, the Nutcracker, the Lord of Misrule, and Father Christmas describes special holidays associated with Christmas, and includes lyrics to traditional songs

The Book of Christmas

The Compleat Flea

Time-Life Books

Retells the stories of Christ's birth, Christmas trolls, ghosts, the Nutcracker, the Lord of Misrule, and Father Christmas describes special holidays associated with Christmas, and includes lyrics to traditional songs of Christmas.

This lively and original account of early Celtic Christianity - which was of far greater importance in the development of Western culture than we commonly realize - is told against the background of European history of the first seven centuries A.D. It focuses on the lives of Saints Brendan, Columba, and Columbanus, who lived active and effective lives in the cause of the early Church. Brendan, one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Ireland, was known in legend as a voyager and was thought to have reached the Western Hemisphere long before the Vikings. Columba took Celtic Christianity to Scotland and helped to re-establish it in Wales and in the North and West of England. Columbanus was the great Irish missionary to continental Europe, where he and his followers helped to convert the heathen invaders from the East. When Rome, in the person of St. Augustine, Pope Gregory's apostle to the Angles, penetrated again to England, a showdown between Roman and Celtic Christianity was inevitable. The dramatic confrontation occurred at the Council of Whitby in 664. Rome, with its organization and authority, won, and Celtic Catholicism went into eclipse. But some of its influence persisted all over Europe, and it had a large share in shaping the culture that ultimately emerged from the dark ages. This book's fascination is the picture that it gives of the movements of peoples, the shaping of new countries, and the development of ideas during those too-little-known centuries.

Early Celtic Christianity

As well as being a practical guide it's an exhilarating read... It is a delightful thing: anybody contemplaing crossing to Ireland for pleasure shouldn't think of going without consulting it. OBSERVER

Brendan Lehane

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