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...

2015 Reprint of 1914 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. J. Godfrey Raupert, one of the most respected English Catholic authors of the early 20th century, traces in this work the Church's combat with the powers of darkness from Our Lord's time, through the age of persecution, into the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and up to the modern era. Drawing upon New Testament accounts, the witness of the Fathers of the Church, the testimony of such great saints as St. Teresa of Avila and St. John Vianney, and the experience of exorcists...