Excerpt from An Irish Shrine of the Madonna and Bective Abbey It is well known, writes His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam, that various printing presses in Great Britain daily pour out a flood of infidel and immoral publications, some of which overflows to this country. We have a confident hope that the Society's [c. T. S. I.) publications will remove the temptation of having recourse to such filthy garbage, will create a taste for pure and wholesome literature, and will also serve as an antidote against the poison of dangerous or immoral writings. Allow me, dearly beloved, writes Dr. Fennelly, Archbishop of Cashel, in his Lenten Pastoral, 1903, before concluding, to say something in favour ot the Catholic Truth Society, which as been got up for the purpose of counteracting a growing taste amongst our people for an overflow of filthy literature from England and other countries. Its publications are racy of the soil are very varied in point of subject and, as far as I can judge, are, in many instances, of high literary merit. I ask priests and people to support the Catholic Truth Society, by taking and reading its publications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.