Athlete of Christ : St. Nicholas of Flue 1417-1487

by Marie McSwigan

179 pages, Hardcover

Published August 12, 1959

About the author

A life-long writer, Ms. McSwigan wrote for several Pittsburgh newspapers and worked in publicity for many area institutions, including Kennywood Park and the University of Pittsburgh, before in 1947 she devoted all of her time to writing. Her first book was a biography of the primitive painter John Kane, who became popular after his death and on account of McSwigan's book. She was an award winning writer of more than 10 children's books. She died of leukemia and is buried at Calvary Roman Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

Reviews

[Hanna]

Used Inter-Library Loan for this hoping a children’s book by the author. Noticed it’s from my Alma mater in their main library basement hahaha!

Ended up being a bio of St. Nicholas which I might’ve heard as a holiday of Catholics around my home town. This is about how he lived before the immortalized or I mean cannonized.