Reproduction of the original: The Lives of the Saints by S. Baring-Gould
The first edition of Butler's Lives of the Saints was written by Alban Butler between 1756 and 1759. Herbert Thurston, S.J., produced the Revised Edition of Butler's Lives in twelve volumes between 1926 and 1938.
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Lives of the Saints for Every Day of the Year
2019 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Butler's great work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints ("Butler's Lives"), the result of thirty years' study, was first published in four volumes in London, 1756-1759.
As seen on screen in the Netflix series, this beautiful collection includes stunning full-color illustrations of each story. Read all the books in the Grishaverse!
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 ...
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 Claude, Louise is his steadying focus; for Louise, Claude is the only man who can break her heart “into a million pieces on the floor.” By turns elegiac and eccentric, inscribing the South’s hallmarks of defeat and refuge in a ...
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.
"Historically accurate information on more than 2,000 legendary saints, organized month by month according to the liturgical calendar.