Alban Goodier, S.J. This classic collection of short biographies of nine saints combines the inspiring facts of the saints' lives with Goodier's unique style and keen insights. Saints include Augustine, Joseph of Cupertino, Claude de la Colombiere, Margaret of Cortona, John of the Cross, and more.

In this second volume of New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church are depicted the lives and deaths, the struggles and battles of those women and men who were raised to the honors of the altar by Pope John Paul II during the fours years from 1984 through 1987, in forty-nine beatification ceremonies and in seven canonization liturgies. Among them are Blesseds and Saints from a wide …

He has inspired countless films, paintings, poems and novels. But who was Francesco Bernadone, now known as Saint Francis of Assisi? Despite the wealth of writing on the life of this great saint, many still don’t know the man. They know the legend: a Francis made palatable to modern sensibilities—the happy friar who carols to the birds and writes poems to the sun and moon. This is the image of …

"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.

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. …

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. 

Saint Dominic Sr. Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P. He multiplied bread and wine, raised people from the dead, fought the Albigensian Heresy, converted thousands with his preaching, gave the world the Rosary and founded the Dominican Order. Dead at only 51, in just five years previous to that he had launched a spiritual movement that has changed the shape of history and still goes on affecting us to this …

Life of St. Ignatius Loyola Fr. Genelli, S.J. A thorough biography of the founder of the Jesuits and author of the famous Spiritual Exercises (which have formed saints and apostles for centuries). Does not skip his miracles. Describes the founding and structure of the Jesuits and how this remarkable order had an immediate and profound effect upon the Christian world. One of the most …

"Suppress Thomas and I will destroy the Church!" exclaimed a 16th-century enemy of the Catholic Church - and her enemies echo those words today. Called "the Angelic Doctor," both because of his soaring intellect and his innocence of life, St. Thomas Aquinas has long been the truest guide to understanding Catholic doctrine.  Although he knew the entire Bible by heart, remembered everything …

Saint Martin Novena And Prayers This little book contains a brief biography of the saint, information about novenas, morning and evening prayer, a novena to St. Martin and various other prayers to the patron of African-Americans, Social Justice, and Social Workers. Imprimatur. Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop of Boston, July 5, 2001.

Fr. D.F. Miller, C.SS.R. Fr. L.X. Aubin, C.SS.R. This child will be blessed with length of days; he shall not see death before his ninetieth year; he will be a bishop and will do great things for Jesus Christ." So prophesied St. Francis Jerome, a friend of the Liguori family, upon the birth of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787). And this prophecy was borne out to the letter, for St. …