MODERN
SAINTS
THEIR LIVES AND FACES Softcover book by Ann Ball Over 550 pages Copyright © 1983 by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc. Nihil Obstat: Rev. Joseph Barta, C.M.
Censor Deputatus Imprimatur: John L. Morkovsky, S.T.D.
Bishop of Galveston-Houston
August 6, 1980 According to the back cover: " " The idea for this book was conceived because of the reactions of a group of my [fifth-grade] students to a photograph of St. Therese the Little Flower.
After making many references throughout the year to her and to her "Little Way," I brought to the class a photo of St. Therese in her wheelchair.
Comments ranged from 'Where are the roses?' to 'You mean she was real?' ...
Immediately I began to search for more photographs to 'prove' that the saints were real."
(From the Author's Preface.) " " Modern Saints - Their Lives and Faces contains the life stories of 55 saints, beati, and holy people of the last 150 years, along with their pictures, most of which are actual photographs.
These pictures alone make the book unique and an invaluable record of sanctity in our own time.
Included are St. Gemma Galgani, St. Bernadette, St. Maria Goretti, St. John Neumann, St. Gabriel Possenti, Padre Pio, Edith Stein, St. Peter Julian Eymard, St. Francis Cabrini, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. John Bosco, Charles de Foucauld, St. Dominic Savio, and many, many more.
Modern Saints presents the lives of many Americans and of saints from the 19th and 20th centuries; many of these are already familiar to most Catholics.
This amazing book will demonstrate the perpetual vitality of the Roman Catholic Church and will strongly convey the idea that there are surely people living today- perhaps right in our own midst- who will one day be canonized saints. " This book is in good condition with minor edgewear to the cover and some creases along the outside spine.
No torn or ripped pages.
No markings or writing except for a few marks on the side edges of the pages, mostly visible from the side view. |
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