November 1st is celebrated in the several different Christian denominations as All Hallows’ Day, or All Saints Day. The College of St. Theresa in Winona closed its doors in the 1980s. At the time, Winona State purchased that college’s Children’s Literature collection because it was much more extensive than our own. Because of that purchase, for a public university, Winona State has a relatively large collection of children’s books about Catholic saints. Indeed, about half of all the books on our retention list that deal with Catholic theology are in the children’s collection, and conversely, a significant number of the children’s book on our retention list deal with the lives of the saints.
Diethelm, Walther. Saint Pius X, the Farm Boy Who Became Pope. Vision Books, 1956.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
