Saints belong to the whole history of the church but are especially visible today. One of the most visible legacies of the papacy of John Paul II has been the acceleration and multiplication of processes of beatification and canonization, mainly of figures from the recent past - martyrs under Nazism and Communism, for example. They also reflect the new universality of the Church, including more men and - increasingly, with belated justice - women from the New World and the Third World. These trends are reflected in this volume. It provides a fresh consideration of one saint or blessed for daily reading, selected mainly from among those in the new full edition of "Butler's Lives of the Saints" - with a few more recent examples. The aim is to give a simple, factual presentation of flesh and blood figures. This is also seen as the most truly devotional approach, drawing on Alban Butler's original insight in presenting saints as examples rather than intercessors: 'In the lives of the saints we see the most perfect maxims of the gospel reduced to practice". This is indeed true: if the saints and blessed collected here share one overarching characteristic it is to have put their love of God to work for their fellow men and women as they saw fit - through austerity of life, contemplative prayer, or a myriad embodiments of what we would now call social work. They are holy and examples to us because they lived and died for others, for us.

Butler's Lives of the Saints (Volume 1)

Religion & Spirituality

Herbert Thurston

Donald Attwater

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Classics, Inc.

Herbert Thurston, S.J.'s “invaluable work of reference” (said the Times Literary Supplement in 1952) is back in print for Catholics crying out for guidance—and getting little—on such matters today. His topics? We'll let all these major reviewers of his time, including the redoubtable London Tablet, outline them for you: “One by one he examines the wonder of levitation, stigmata, telekinesis (movement of a body without material connection with the moving cause), luminous phenomena, human salamanders, to mention but a few. Even the ordinary ‘thriller fan' will find plenty of stimulus.”—Irish Ecclesiastical Record “A major section is concerned with stigmata. Is any subject more controversial?...This book certainly teaches us how very little we now know about what the human body can endure or do, and the effect of the mind upon it.

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