Offers a month-by-month guide to the saints canonized or beatified from late 1999 to the end of 2003, with an overview of each saint's life and accomplishments.
The political consequence of this wedding was the consolidation of Otto's Italian power. Otto and Adelaide had five children, but problems arose when a son by his first wife became jealous of his stepmother. This young man attempted to ...
For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies.
The judge's secretary, admiring the steadfastness of the Saint, and seeing an angel robed in white, who trampled out the fire and again set free the youthful martyr, proclaimed his faith in Christ, was baptized with his whole family, ...
Now, in this new edition of the original classic, Michael Walsh has culled the ruch resources of earlier editions to accentuate the more modern and best-documented saints.
Butler's Lives of the Saints: April, May, June
... saint of Italian cavalry , and a patron of Venice , Genoa , Portugal , Catalonia , and Istanbul . He also has the honoured title of " prophet " in Islamic hagiography . Great offence was caused in England ... Saint for the Day 23. St George.
Provides a brief profile of each saint and discusses how he or she is depicted in art
spent four months working with the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa's religious order, in Kingston, Jamaica. During our first year as novices, we were asked to go on a “third world experiment.” (“Experiment” is Jesuit lingo for ...
Approximately 100 of them lived in the twentieth century. This new book is also unique in that it uses the saint's own words wherever possible, taking advantage of newly discovered archives, memoirs and other primary sources.