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Title: The Happiness of Heaven
By a Father of the Society of Jesus

Author: F. J. Boudreaux

Release Date: April 28, 2008 [eBook #25224]

Language: English

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THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN

By a Father of the Society of Jesus

F. J. BOUDREAUX (Requiescat in pace)

"Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom prepared for
you."--Matth. xxv. 34.

APPROBATIONS.

I, Ferdinand Coosemans, Provincial of the Society of Jesus in
Missouri, in virtue of power granted to me by the Very Reverend P.
Beck, Superior General of the same Society, hereby permit the
publication of a book entitled: "THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN, by a Father
of the Society of Jesus;" the same having been approved by the
censors appointed by me to revise it.

St. Louis, Mo., 1 Nov., 1870. F. Coosemans, S.J.

Liber supradictus, cum a Censoribus Nostris fuerit jam probatus,
imprimatur.

+ MARTINUS JOANNES, Archiep. Baltimor.

Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by John
Murphy & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at
Washington.

Baltimore: Published by John Murphy & Co. New York: Catholic
Publication Society. 1872.

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE TO THE SECOND REVISED EDITION.

It seldom falls to the lot of a Catholic Publisher to issue from his
press a book, which, while it possesses the true, substantial merit
of genuine Catholic literature, is at the same time graced with the
novelty, the absorbing interest which at once command the attention
on the Public, and place the book in a high and permanent position
before the world. Such has been our good fortune in the publication
of "THE HAPPINESS OF HEAVEN"--and of this no better proof can be
required than the unprecedented sale of 3000 copies, constituting the
first edition, in less than sixty days, and the constantly increasing
demand which already calls forth this second edition. Few books have
been more warmly welcomed by the Press, both Cat