The Saints That Moved the World by René Fülöp-Miller, 1st ed.

The Saints That Moved the World, René Fülöp-Miller. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. First edition, 1945. Extensive biblography and index. Hardcover, no dustjacket. The red cloth cover is in good condition with bright gilt lettering on the cover and spine. The top page edges are a light orange. Some discoloration at the top of the cover, with more on the back cover. Slight wear to the top and bottom of spine, three corners, and bottom edges. Lower front corner is dinged with some fraying. Very good interior. The front pasted end paper has three stacked labels covering something. The free end paper has a former owner’s signature and date (45). The pages are clean, and most of the final 80 pages have creases or fold-overs at the tip of the upper corners.

Sri Gyanamata, one of the foremost disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda, read The Saints That Moved the World in 1946. She writes about it in a letter to her guru that appears in God Alone: The Life and Letters of a Saint: “Just now I am reading a most wonderful book…. The author puts something into his book that he has gained by profound study and discipline. I thought I knew all about the life of St. Francis, but I found I did not know the half.”

The five saints covered in this book are St. Anthony, the saint of renunciation, St. Augustine, the saint of the intellect, St. Francis, the saint of love, St. Ignatius, the saint of will power, and St. Teresa, the saint of ecstasy. In Paramahansaji’s book The Second Coming of Christ, he relates stories from The Saints That Moved the World about St. Anthony’s and St. Teresa’s spiritual struggles.

A book review of this book appeared in the September-October 1946 issue of Paramahansa Yogananda’s magazine, East-West.