The Life of the Venerable Anna Maria Taigi: The Roman Matron

(Anna Maria Taigi 1769 - 1837) 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