Life of St. Bernardine of Siena

"The following life of St. Bernardine is, as the reader will quickly perceive, by the pen of no great scholar or theologian. It has been the writer's sole endeavor to utilize the original sources at his disposal so as to furnish the reader with a living portrait of the Saint, with a graphic picture of his time and environment, and above all to discover the secret of that preaching which was attended by such marvelous results."

From the Preface to the Life of St. Bernardine, by Paul Thureau-Dangin