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Illustrated Lives Of The Saints 2
$17.00Companion volume to the new Illustrated Lives of the Saints. This updated collection, which includes a short biography of a Saint or Blessed together with a prayer for each day of the year, is in accord with the Roman Martyrology (2004 edition). Also includes over 60 full-color illustrations to enhance this attractively bound volume.
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Saint Athanasius
$7.95The boy who became a famous bishop of Alexandria, Egypt, was exiled from his diocese no fewer than 5 times, fought the Arian Heresy through many perils and adventures and finally triumphed for orthodoxy. A popular biography of “The Champion of Orthodoxy.”
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Treasure In Clay
$18.00Fulton J. Sheen was an extraordinary priest, author of some sixty books, pastor of a radio and television congregation numbering thirty million, and surely the most loved and celebrated Catholic prelate of the twentieth century. Here, in Sheen’s own words, are reflections from his childhood, his years in seminary, his academic career, his extensive travels, his media stardom, and more. A wealth of anecdotes enriches this wide-ranging memoir-stories from his experiences as an orator and preacher, from his many papal audiences, from Vatican Council II. With text enhanced by a wonderful assortment of photographs that capture the flavor and spirit of Sheen’s illustrious life, fans young and old will cherish this autobiography for years to come. For it is, without doubt, a lasting testament to a life that was worth living.
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Francis And Clare
$11.95A Vision Book about St. Francis and St. Clare, the two very popular saints of Assisi. Helen Homan has captured all the excitement and beauty of the lives of these saints from their childhood growing up together in Assisi to their profound conversion and lifelong influence-indeed centuries-long influence-on the whole world through their radical living of the Gospel and founding of two great religious orders, the Franciscans and the Poor Clares. Combining the stories of Francis and Clare in one volume makes for a book that will be of great interest to both boys and girls of a wide age span. Illustrated.
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Saint Francis Of Assisi
$14.00Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis’s life–the one that gets to the heart of the matter.
For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.
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Saint Rose Of Lima
$19.95The story for children and youth of St. Rose of Lima, who became a hermit in her own home–rather than go to a convent–and how she became a great Saint. At her confirmation in 1597, she took the name of Rose, because, when an infant, her face had been seen transformed by a mystical rose. As a child she was remarkable for a great reverence, and pronounced love, for all things relating to God.
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Saint Margaret Mary
$14.95This is the remarkable story of the sickly St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the messenger chosen by Our Lord to convey the wonderful promises of His Sacred Heart. This story explains how a holy French nun-who experienced a painful childhood, sickness, and suffered being gossiped by her sisters in the convent-was chosen to proclaim the revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the great First Friday promise. St. Margaret Mary’s story shows how Our Lord chooses the weak to confound the strong, and He gives strength and consolation when it is most needed-her story is a story for all readers to have hope for eternal joy!
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Saint Francis Solano
$14.95Mary Fabyan Windeatt was known as the “Storyteller of the Saints” in the ’50s and ’60s. It is no wonder that her book on St. Francis Solano renders his life in such an exciting and engaging way!
This book is a perfect introduction for your children to the life of St. Francis Solano. Known as the “Wonder Worker of the New World,” St. Francis performed many miracles during his work converting souls in the mission territory of South America. Windeatt tells the story of his heroism and of his many adventures so that your children will want to learn from his holy example of faithfulness.
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