The Christmas Candle, by Max Lucando

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FIC LUCANDO

In Gladstone, a small town in England, the townspeople believe in miracles. Every twenty-five years the local candle maker is visited by an angel on Christmas Eve. The angel lightly touches a candle in the shop and quietly disappears. The chandler presents it as a gift to a needy person in town and when the candle is lit a miracle soon follows. But the Christmas of 1864 may be the last year for the angel to visit. The chandler and his wife are elderly and there is no one in the family to continue the candle making tradition. Fearing that this is their last opportunity to receive the candle many of the townspeople approach the chandler and ask that they be given the candle on Christmas Eve. He and his wife are overwhelmed with this responsibility. Each person is in need but there will only be one candle and who should it go to?

The Christmas of 1864 is very different than the ones in the past. The unexpected and the unimaginable happen, which help to create an even more miraculous Christmas in the small village of Gladstone.

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