Saints are those who distinguish themselves by heroic virtue during life and whom the Church honors as saints either by her ordinary universal teaching authority or by a solemn definition called canonization. The Saints books category features books on the lives of the saints, both collections and individual biographies, and writings of the saints themselves.

A superb new CD audio version of one of the greatest spiritual classics ever written. Considered by many to be the first autobiography/memoir ever written, Confessions is a retrospective view of a life challenged by uncertainty, doubt, human frailty, and earthly desires. St. Augustine discovers and cherishes a deeply personal relationship with his God, all while describing the day-to-day …

The Confessions of St. Augustine remains one of the most moving and thought-provoking conversion stories of all time, more than 1500 years after it was originally written. It is the story of a wayward son living a sinful life who finds himself called to God. Through the intercession of his mother, St. Monica, he found his way (slowly) to the Catholic Church. Eventually he became a bishop and a …

Conversation With Christ . The practicality of St. Teresa's teaching about mental prayer shines through in this wonderful synopsis of her writings about it--something she said "the whole world could not purchase." Learn how we should pray, in order to grow in the spiritual life.

Synopsis These interviews, given during the lifetime of St. Josemaría Escrivá, explain the nature of Opus Dei and describe some basic aspects of its spirit and organization. The replies of Opus Dei's founder, despite the awkwardness of the inadequate juridical terminology at the time, explain its aim to spread in all spheres of society a deep awareness of the universal call to …

Created for Great Things presents Mother Teresa’s spiritual way through an appealing collection of her own writings, with commentary by Gloria Hutchinson. To all who knew her, personally or through the media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta embodied Jesus’ promise, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to …

The author studies various aspects of Bonaventure's mystical world view, leading to an understanding of his relevance to contemporary issues such as individualism and relatedness, peace and violence, and the problems of the created world's relationship to the person who seeks to love God in all and above all.

The cult of the saints is a phenomenon that expanded rapidly in the fourth century, and John Chrysostom’s homilies are important witnesses to its growth. Until now, the majority of John’s homilies on the saints and martyrs have been ignored. However, in this volume,Wendy Mayer investigates the liturgical, topographical, and pastoral aspects that marked the martyr cult at Antioch …

The Cure D'Ars - St. Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney By Abbe Francis Trochu The definitive life, based on the official "Process of Beatification and Canonization," and thus totally factual and documented. Of humble education and assigned to a forgotten farmers' village, he attracted the whole world to Ars and was proclaimed "Patron Saint of Parish Priests" in 1929. Ate one meal …

An excellent and recommended book for the jubliee Year of the Priest (June 2009 - June 2010).

"So you've decided to give in to the Devil" said the priest. John started back in dismay. "Oh no, Father!" "But you just told me you were giving up your studies for the priesthood," responded Father Bailey. What was poor John Vianney to do? Having begun his schooling much older than the other boys, he had found it impossible to keep up with them, and a couple of …

The Cure of Ars Milton Lomask Vision Books Milton Lomask contributes his second volume to the Vision Books series of saints for youth 9 - 15 years old in this story of the greatly beloved Curé of Ars. Jean-Marie Vianney, a farm boy born during the French Revolution, longed to become a priest. But he could not learn Latin, and it seemed as if the humble, lovable, slow-thinking Jean-Marie would …

The Cure Of Ars By Fr.Bartholomew O'Brien The life of the great St. John Vianney (1786-1859). He barely succeeded in becoming a priest, and from the humblest parish imaginable, he worked miracles of grace in people's lives and become the "Patron Saint of Parish Priests" everywhere. Over 500,000 now visit Ars each year. Imprimatur.

A compilation of 18 miraculous favors obtained through the intercession of Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Using the testimony of families, friends and other witnesses, Msgr. Flavio Capucci shows how God's work continues to transform lives, sometimes miraculously. The 1976 cure of a Spanish nun's cancer confirmed the beatification of Josemaría Escrivá in 1992. That same year, a surgeon's …

Fr. Edward S. Keogh, Cong. Orat Cuthbert Mayne In 1905, a two volume set on the lives of the English Martyrs were released in England. Volume I covered the 15 martyrs under Henry VIII declared blessed by Pope Leo XIII. Volume II related the lives of 24 martyrs beatified by Leo XIII who died under Elizabeth I. Many of these martyrs are virtually unknown in America. Requiem Press is hoping to …

At the height of the tumultuous developments taking place in Central and Eastern Europe in the ninth century, two Byzantine missionaries and brothers from Thessalonica, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, came to the fore. Their work of acculturation among the Slavs had far-reaching and lasting changes upon European life. This book looks back over the life and work of these two …

Companion to the best-selling AUGUSTINE DAY BY DAY, this book provides meditations for every day taken from the writings of St. Augustine. Compiled and edited by John E. Rotelle, O.S.A.  

Edited by Fr. Rawley Myers "Don't read good books--read the best books," is what a nun taught Fr. Rawley Myers as a youth. Thus, he has gathered together in this very unique volume a reading for each day of the year from some of the greatest Catholic books and writers in Church history, many in this century. Myers taps into the rich treasury of outstanding Catholic literature, often …

A beautifully illustrated prayer-book containing thirty prayerful reflections with the Saints for each day of the month. Every prayer is written out of deep love for and devotion to the Saints who are our guides to and intercessors with Jesus.

      Saint Damien of Molokai is the riveting account of how a humble Congregation of the Sacred Hearts priest found a vocation in caring for lepers that led him to his upcoming canonization in October 2009. Hawaii normally brings idyllic scenes of blue skies and white beaches to mind. But Hell invaded Paradise when the incurable disease leprosy was discovered there. An 1865 law …

St. John takes us on a journey into ourselves, a journey of knowledge and self understanding, that encompasses our failings and imperfections. It shows us how in a place beyond words we can embrace sadness and grief, and seeking God, our lives will be turned around. He describes the “arid and dark night of contemplation” which leads us to “the knowledge of oneself and of …