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St. Louis De Montfort: The Story of Our Lady's Slave
Known as the "Apostle of Mary," Louis De Montfort became a famous preacher and author of True Devotion to Mary and The Secret of the Rosary. And his adventures as a slave of Mary, written well for all readers, is truly inspiring.
Mary Fabyan Windeatt was known as “the storyteller of the saints.” In the 1950’s and 60’s she wrote over twenty historical fiction novels on the saints, bringing to life these holy men and women for young readers across the world. By artistically rendering familiar stories, the Windeatt books help readers see that the saints are real people whom we can emulate.
Ideal for all children, especially those enrolled in TAN Academy in the fourth through sixth grades for easy reading literature.
Mary Fabyan Windeatt was known as “the storyteller of the saints.” In the 1950’s and 60’s she wrote over twenty historical fiction novels on the saints, bringing to life these holy men and women for young readers across the world. By artistically rendering familiar stories, the Windeatt books help readers see that the saints are real people whom we can emulate.
Ideal for all children, especially those enrolled in TAN Academy in the fourth through sixth grades for easy reading literature.
211 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1991
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Mary Fabyan Windeatt
101 books25 followersMary Fabyan Windeatt was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1910. Interested in music as a child, she received a degree in music from Toronto Conservatory of Music at the age of fifteen and a further degree in music from Mount Saint Vincent College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1927. This same year she moved with her family to San Diego, California, graduating from San Diego State College in 1934 with a degree in business.
She moved to New York to seek employment in the field of advertising but was unsuccessful. With time on her hands, she began to write and in 1934, she sent a story, which was accepted for publication, to a Catholic magazine. She continued to write while pursuing her studies, graduating in 1940 with a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Miss Windeatt eventually contributed verse, book reviews, short stories, and articles to thirty-three different publications and wrote numerous biographies of saints for children. The first biography, Saints in the Sky, The Story of St. Catherine of Siena, was published in 1941. Considerable research went into her books; for example, she traveled to Peru in the summer of 1941 prior to publishing Lad of Lima, The Story of Blessed Martin de Porres in 1942. (St. Martin de Porres was canonized a saint in 1962.) In addition to her biographies, she also wrote the text for twenty-eight Catholic coloring books and was a regular contributor to the monthly Dominican magazine The Torch in which many of her books originally appeared in serial form. A third-order (secular) Dominican, she has been called the “storyteller of the saints”—especially Dominican saints.
Later in life, Miss Windeatt moved near St. Meinrad’s Abbey in St. Meinrad, Indiana with her mother. She died on November 20, 1979.
Under their original titles, the series of saint biographies that Mary Fabyan Windeatt wrote in the 1940’s and 1950’s are currently out of print. However between 1991 and 1994, Tan Books and Publishers, Inc. republished twenty of these saint biographies.
Rich in Roman Catholic culture and doctrine, these books illustrate to both children and adults how the Faith was lived every day by the saints; they inspire us to know, love, and serve God as the saints did. Mary Fabyan Windeatt had the ability to relate much factual information about each saint while seasoning the narrative with the doctrinal truths they lived. While each saint shines forth in these books, these writings also reveal to us Ms. Windeatt’s own strong Catholic beliefs; her faith too lives on.
She moved to New York to seek employment in the field of advertising but was unsuccessful. With time on her hands, she began to write and in 1934, she sent a story, which was accepted for publication, to a Catholic magazine. She continued to write while pursuing her studies, graduating in 1940 with a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Miss Windeatt eventually contributed verse, book reviews, short stories, and articles to thirty-three different publications and wrote numerous biographies of saints for children. The first biography, Saints in the Sky, The Story of St. Catherine of Siena, was published in 1941. Considerable research went into her books; for example, she traveled to Peru in the summer of 1941 prior to publishing Lad of Lima, The Story of Blessed Martin de Porres in 1942. (St. Martin de Porres was canonized a saint in 1962.) In addition to her biographies, she also wrote the text for twenty-eight Catholic coloring books and was a regular contributor to the monthly Dominican magazine The Torch in which many of her books originally appeared in serial form. A third-order (secular) Dominican, she has been called the “storyteller of the saints”—especially Dominican saints.
Later in life, Miss Windeatt moved near St. Meinrad’s Abbey in St. Meinrad, Indiana with her mother. She died on November 20, 1979.
Under their original titles, the series of saint biographies that Mary Fabyan Windeatt wrote in the 1940’s and 1950’s are currently out of print. However between 1991 and 1994, Tan Books and Publishers, Inc. republished twenty of these saint biographies.
Rich in Roman Catholic culture and doctrine, these books illustrate to both children and adults how the Faith was lived every day by the saints; they inspire us to know, love, and serve God as the saints did. Mary Fabyan Windeatt had the ability to relate much factual information about each saint while seasoning the narrative with the doctrinal truths they lived. While each saint shines forth in these books, these writings also reveal to us Ms. Windeatt’s own strong Catholic beliefs; her faith too lives on.
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February 25, 2024
The author articulates in story form the foundational truths of the Marian Consecration as taught by St. Louis De Montfort in the 1700s. Reading this novel helped me understand the basic tenants of having a relationship with Our Blessed Mother: the reason why we should pursue Our Lady, the consequences of having a relationship with her, as well as reasons why people are so resistant to devoting their entire beings to the Mother of God. The resistance St. Louis de Montfort experienced to teaching about Mary in the 1700s is so very similar to the resistance we see towards Our Lady today in the 2000s. This children’s novel was my on-ramp to reading his book “True Devotion to Mary with Preparation for Total Consecration”.
May 2, 2022
I’ll be honest - I didn’t know much about St Louis de Montfort and wasn’t sure I really wanted to. But after reading his work The Secret of Mary and enjoying it, and knowing I’d read other Saint books by this author and enjoyed them, I picked this one up and loved it. And I feel I know and love St Louis better now, too.
July 10, 2025
I read many of the Mary Fabyan Windeatt books to my children and loved them all, always finding them inspiring and learning a lot. I do not know why I never read this book. My husband and I and our three oldest children, they at really too young an age, went through a class in preparation for De Montfort's consecration to Our Lady. This book would have been perfect to read then. I have no idea why I didn't think of it. Though I have always been extremely grateful for that class and that I made my consecration, I think in the process I decided that I probably couldn't really relate to St. Louis de Montfort. In reading this book, I found him so likable and admirable. Like the others in this series, even though it is written for and upper middle school to early high school-aged young person, I found it wonderful and helped me appreciate Marian consecration once again. I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in learning more about the saints, devotion to Mary, and how consecration to Mary is a path to loving Christ better and becoming more like Him.
Note to myself: I read this slowly, just a page or two before bed, a couple of nights a week.
Note to myself: I read this slowly, just a page or two before bed, a couple of nights a week.
June 1, 2023
Louis Mary Grignion (1673-1716) of France was a holy many very effective at preaching missions, mostly at parish churches. He was effective because of his deep prayer life and willingness to happily do penances. He founded an order of priests and one for women. He preached a total consecration to Jesus through Mary.
Members of the Jansenists, who were against any elevation of Mary, influenced several bishops against him. Louis would humbly move on to another diocese. His most influential books were buried and not discovered until 1842, after the Jansenist threat was gone. True Devotion to Mary and The Secret of the Rosary.
Members of the Jansenists, who were against any elevation of Mary, influenced several bishops against him. Louis would humbly move on to another diocese. His most influential books were buried and not discovered until 1842, after the Jansenist threat was gone. True Devotion to Mary and The Secret of the Rosary.
May 26, 2025
Usually I prefer the Vision saint books to Windeatt’s, but I enjoyed this one quite a lot! It was a good accompaniment to True Devotion to Mary because it helped me better consider the times in which De Montfort was preaching and writing.
December 9, 2021
Love this! My 9th fav of her books. I love this and found it beautiful to learn about this amazing author!
December 22, 2013
Good series
January 26, 2017
This book felt a bit long but it was a good story.
October 5, 2023
Definitely made me want to find and read a copy of his book. Very good read.
July 3, 2022
My patron saint is Louis De Montfort-Because of this book.
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