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<p>The illustrious Cardinal Secretary of State of Pope St. Pius X was a saintly man in his interior life with God and his daily life among men. Although revered and admired by all, only after his death was his immense charity and profound humility...

<p>This is the first work of any length in the English language on St. Galgano, an Italian knight who gave up his comfortable life to become a hermit. One particular incident from his life is already known to English speaking audiences, though...

2020 Reprint of the 1954 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  Written to be read in conjunction with the The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, this work is s Life of...

2014 Reprint of 1952 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Revelations of St. Gertrude" form one of the classics of Catholic writing. And although they would have to be classified as...

The saints have forever intrigued me since I was a small child with their strength, faithfulness and their Christian beliefs and multiple sacrifices. How truly compelling, interesting and fascinating were the lives of the saints. What an inspiration...

St Ignatius' teaching and spirituality have profoundly affected the Church and by extension the whole world. In his autobiography we get a glimpse into the experiences that moulded St Ignatius and his teaching. With his typical terseness, St Ignatius...

What does it mean to live for God alone? "Prefer nothing to the love of Christ"; "My God and my all"; "God alone suffices"--these statements from the saints express the single desire that unified their hearts and gave direction to their lives. "God...

Pope Leo XIII was born of a family of the lower nobility, raised in a pious household, and gifted with superior intelligence and an energetic temperament. In this comprehensive work, Dr. Arya chronicles how the Holy Father used these throughout his...

Anatole France, the Nobel prize winning French author, turns to a historical subject for this two-volume Life of Joan of Arc. Thoroughly researched with a wealth of references, he sought to bring a rationalist viewpoint to the legendary French heroine...

EL PEQUEÑO ÁNGEL DE COLOMBIA is the extraordinary true story of Albeiro Vargas, a Colombian boy famous for his magnificent humanitarian work.SUMMARY Albeiro is only six when he starts playing and taking care of his ill grandfather. After his death,...

Embark on a Mystical Journey with the Spiritual Alchemy of Saint JoanImagine immersing yourself in the life and legacy of one of history's most enigmatic figures. Arc's Arcana: The Spiritual Alchemy of Saint Joan offers an unprecedented exploration into...

Everyone has an angel story, or so it seems, but the Catholic Church has some pretty spectacular ones, especially those that are found in the lives and legends of the saints.Starting in earliest Christian times with Gregory the Great and finishing in the...

St. Manuel felt called to the priesthood at the age of 12. After his ordination in 1901, he was sent to preach at a church which he found to be unclean and abandoned. There, praying before a Tabernacle covered in dust and cobwebs, with torn altar cloths...

During his twenty years as abbot of the Yorkshire monastery of Rievaulx, Aelred preached many sermons: to his own monks, in other monasteries, and at significant gatherings outside the cloister. In these thirty-one homilies on Isaiah chapters 13-16,...

The book you are about to read provides a new paradigm for understanding the ministry of a twelfth-century cloistered Benedictine nun, St Hildegard of Bingen, the fourth woman doctor of the Church in light of twenty-first century servant leadership...

Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779-1865) was a forward-thinking educator of young women in France in the aftermath of the French Revolution. In her earliest establishment in Amiens, she included in her curriculum, elements of scientific disciplines that had...

Les Vies Des Saints Pour Tous Les Jours De L'ann�����e (1783) est un livre publi����� par A Lyon Chez Le Roy Publisher. Le livre contient des r�����cits de la vie des saints pour chaque jour de l'ann�����e. Les histoires sont �����crites en fran�����ais...

Les Vies Des Saints V10: Composees Sur Ce Qui Nous Est Reste (1739) est un livre �����crit par Adrien Baillet. Il s'agit d'un recueil de biographies de saints compos�����es ������ partir des informations qui nous sont parvenues. Ce livre est le...

Les Vies Des Saints Peres V2: Des Deserts, Et De Quelques Saintes (1680) est un livre �����crit par Robert Arnauld d'Andilly. Il s'agit d'une collection de biographies de saints et de saintes qui ont v�����cu dans les d�����serts. Le livre est divis�����...

Les Vies Des Saintes Solitaires V3: D'Orient Et D'Occident (1711) est un livre �����crit par Joseph Francois Bourgoing De Villefore. Ce livre est le troisi�����me volume de la s�����rie ""Les Vies Des Saintes Solitaires"". Il raconte l'histoire de saints...

La Vie De Saint Martin, Eveque De Tours (1699) est un livre �����crit par Gervaise, Nicolas. Ce livre raconte l'histoire de la vie de Saint Martin, qui �����tait un �����v������que de Tours. Saint Martin �����tait connu pour son d�����vouement ������ la...

La Storia di S. Restituta: Vergine, e Martire Romana (1730) di Tondi, Alessio, ����� un libro che racconta la vita di Santa Restituta, una vergine e martire romana. Il libro ����� stato scritto nel 1730 e presenta una narrazione dettagliata della vita di...

Saint Victor is one of the church’s renowned martyrs. He denied his earthly position as an Army General to stand up for his faith and refused the worship to idols. His life inspires young people today to stand strong in their faith and became a...

Tamav Kereya Iskandar (the late abbess of St George's convent in Old Cairo, Egypt) is one of the contemporary monastic figures that is least known in our church today. This book outlines her monastic journey and practice of virtue in her own life, as...

Hymns For Private Devotion For The Sundays And Saints������� Days Throughout The Year is a book of religious hymns compiled by Samuel Rickards and originally published in 1825. The book is intended for private use and contains hymns for each Sunday and...

John Dickson gives an honest account of the mixed history of Christianity, the evil and the good. He concedes the Christians' complicity for centuries of bullying but also shows the myriad ways the beautiful teaching of Christ has enriched our world and...

Saint Bernard's famous work, The Steps of Humility and Pride (in Latin, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae), is a short book consisting of a mere fifty-seven paragraphs. In it, the Abbot of Clairvaux unpacks the doctrine of the very crucial chapter 7...

This historical study examines in detail the first seven years of Athanasius's career as bishop of Alexandria from the time of his election and consecration as bishop in 328 to his banishment by Emperor Constantine following the Synod of Tyre in 335...

Het boek ""Leven Der Groote Catharina Van Alexandrien, Gelaurierde Maegd En Martelaresse"" geschreven door Guilliam Caudron in 1771, vertelt het verhaal van de heilige Catharina van Alexandri�����. Catharina was een christelijke maagd en martelaar die...

Fr Abd el-Mesih el-Habashi is one of the twentieth century's great ascetics who lived in the Egyptian desert. His life is a witness to the continuity of the desert spirituality of the 4th century. He was man who was not concerned about anything or for...

Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first...

Gertrud the Great (1256-1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversion that led to a series of visionary experiences, some of which she recorded in Latin "with her own...

St Thérèse of Lisieux is one of our best loved saints. Discalced Carmelite mystic, Doctor of the Church, popularly acclaimed as 'the Little Flower', her spirituality is at once simple and sublime - it appeals to Christians at all stages of the spiritual...

Most people living in the last quarter of the twentieth century knew Mother Teresa by name and appearance. They could also identify her as the saint of the gutters of Calcutta. Two years after her death, she was still recognized as "the most admired...

This book, weaving together the history and genealogy of the More family and of the other families to which they allied themselves by marriage, provides an illuminating sequel to the various lives that have been written of St Thomas More. It tells the...

Sts. Maximus and Dometius are two Roman imperial young brothers who took on the monastic life under the discipleship of Abba Agabus and Abba Macarius the Great. Soon after, they became the namesake and foundation of the Monastery of al-Baramūs in the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Originally published in 1966, the full Georgian text of the oldest version of this Christian version of this matchless classic of Oriental wisdom literature is made accessible to a wider readership in an English translation. Based on a unique manuscript...

Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally because of the barbarian invasions. Gregory's experience as prefect of the city of Rome and as apocrisarius of Pope Pelagius fitted him...

In the early fourth century, under the reign of the emperor Diocletian, followers of the Christian Faith experienced a sustained and systematic campaign of fierce persecution at the hands of the Roman authorities. The aim of this persecution was nothing...

This is St. Ambrose’s thorough overview of the Christian faith. What it is, what it means and how we apply it to our lives. Not only was it a necessity for the early Church, but it applies equally for us today.

Originally published in 1951, this volume gives a general survey of the Golden Age of Spanish mysticism, following this with translations of extracts from 15 leading authors in this field. The selections from each author are preceded by details of...

With the exception of the life of St. Nino, none of the biographies here had been previously translated into English when this book was originally published in 1956. The lives of the Georgian saints are rich and many-sided, not dry chronicles of monkish...

Not a few figures--writers, poets, activists, teachers--have focused on the presence of the Holy One in the ordinary, on the many possibilities of worldly spirituality. In this book, pastor, teacher, and theologian Michael Plekon introduces us to several...

Who was Saint Francis? Today he is most often a sweet ceramic statue in a garden, a sentimentalized romantic figure. But A Gathering of Larks, containing forty personal letters from Abigail Carroll to Francis, reveals him to be a complex man who lived a...