Michael Collopy More than four years in the making and published with the permission and cooperation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, this large format 224 page book offers the most comprehensive photographic documentation of the apostolic work and prayer life of the Missionaries of Charity yet published. Destined to serve as an important historical record, this "illustrated prayer book" vividly …

"This is the story of a young girl who died when she was nineteen.  She was no beauty and no scholar.  She could neither read nor write.  She came from the obscurity of a small, remote hamlet and in less than fifteen months had crowned a king, set in motion events that were to save her country from foreign domination, defeated the forces of a great nation, and changed the …

"Athanasius!" called out the holy old Bishop from his deathbed. There was no reply. For the Bishop's young assistant had fled the city in fear of being chosen as his successor. "Athanasius!" called out the Patriarch once more. "You think you can escape, but it shall not be so." And with these words he died. Not long afterward, the Bishops met to choose a successor …

This is the story of the great St. Teresa of Avila, who was a woman of great heart and immense common sense and who was a woman of great heart and immense common sense and who was one of the most remarkable women in the history of the world. She reformed Carmel - thus making the Carmelite Order into a mother of Saints - and leaving a tremendous mark on the Catholic Church even to this day.

The Martyrdom Of Father Campion and His Companions by William Cardinal Allen . First published in 1582, this edition is a facsimile of the single and unique copy found in the British Museum and republished in 1908. It is a brief history (primarily eye-witness accounts) of the martyrdom of St. Edmund Campion and his twelve companion priests. [Publisher’s Note: This is one of the most …

The Life of Saint Dominic Augusta Theodosia Drane The best biography of St. Dominic in English we have seen. Covers his preaching, miracles, founding of the Dominicans, the Rosary, the incredible fruit of his life, and the miraculous growth of the Dominicans.

A Story of Beethoven By Brother Ernest, C.S.C. (Imprimatur 1960) Fully illustrated. Children love stories about music and musicians, and this is one of the most interesting. Ludwig van Beethoven began to learn, play and write music as soon as he could hold a violin. He grew into one the greatest composers the world has ever known and wrote some of the greatest and most popular symphonies ever …

St. Antony of the Desert By St. Athanasius The classic, fascinating and almost fabulous life of St. Antony of the Desert, and the Father of Monasticism, both East and West, all as recorded by St. Athanasius, his friend. Filled with miracles, wisdom and revelations. Imprimatur.

"The city's going to be destroyed by earthquake!" one excited person exclaimed. "No, fire and brimstone are going to fall from Heaven!" said others. "It's the end of the whole world, not just the city of Lima!" declared still others. What on earth had the saintly Father Francis Solano said last night in that sermon he gave in the market-place? Why, it was now midnight, and the whole city was …

Anne Ball When youthful enthusiasm combines with pure unbridled love, it's not magic. It's young holiness. Introduce your children and grandchildren to these funny, playful, athletic, loving, courageous youths. Share with your students the lives - and photos - of youngsters their own age. Or, in some cases, even younger! These are the Church's young holy ones. Its saints and its blesseds and …

St. Dominic's Family - Over 300 Famous Dominicans Sr Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P. A monumental work. Some 335 biographies of the most famous people of the Dominican Order - priests, nuns and Third Order members - from St. Dominic himself to Gerald Vann (1906-1963), arranged century by century. Great stories of heroes and heroines of Christ - miracles, visions, martyrdoms. Belongs in every Catholic …

Saints Of The American Wilderness - The Brave Lives And Holy Deaths Of The Eight North American Martyrs Fr. John A. O'Brien French priests enter a war zone where captured Westerners are paraded before their captors, tortured, and then beheaded. Their desecrated bodies get dumped by the roadside. Iraq in 2004? The Gaza Strip? Western Afghanistan? No. A place more dangerous: Canada in the 1600s. …

Presenting the great people of the Bible, illustrated in full color. This beautiful volume offers a two-page treatment of each of more than seventy important biblical personages: one page is a full-color portrait and the other provides a succinct, insightful, and informative summary of the individual’s influence.

A pope for 33 days. A priest for 43 years. A teacher even today. For a little more than a month in the late summer of 1978, Pope John Paul I captured the world's attention. For more than four decades, Father - and eventually Cardinal - Albino Luciani inspired those who knew him well and loved him dearly. From his birth in northern Italy in 1912 to the Vatican's acceptance of his cause for …

Régine Pernoud Régine Pernoud, the highly acclaimed French medieval historian and bestselling author, presents an enlightening biography of one of France's most revered saints, and a man whose impact on France, and Europe, continues to this day. Martin of Tours lived in the fourth century, at that great turning point in history when Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire. He left a …

Probably written in 406-408, this dialogue between an unidentified bishop and Theodore, a deacon of the Church of Rome, has as its aim to point out Chrysostom as a model of what a true Christian bishop should be. 

Hans Urs von Balthasar In Tragedy Under Grace , Hans Urs von Balthasar presents a magisterial portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the European Catholic renaissance, the historian and man of letters, Reinhold Schneider, whose response to the spiritual collapse of the West led him to Christ and to an interpretation of history in the light of the cross. Balthasar's painstaking …

Dale Ahlquist The English author G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most well-known and beloved writers of his time. Yet he has been strangely neglected today and is all but unknown by today's readers. Dale Ahlquist's television series, The Apostle of Common Sense , introduced Chesterton to a new generation, and re-introduced him to a generation that had forgotten him. This new book …

Pope Pius VII Robin Anderson A fascinating historical biography of a pope who was never supposed to have been elected. Covers Napoleon, the restoration of the Jesuits, Catholic emancipation of England, Jansenism, Gallicanism, Josephism and Regalism - all various forms of Liberalism which infects the Church yet today! Elected in 1800, he outlived most of the Church's enemies. Imprimatur.

Gerard O'Connell Francis Cardinal Arinze This book, based on a series of interviews with His Eminence Francis Cardinal Arinze, offers the reflections and insights of the only African cardinal currently heading a Vatican department. Without pretending to be a biography, it nevertheless tells much of the story of the cardinal's life in his own words. Speaking freely to Gerard O'Connell, a Rome …