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Blessings from the Battlefield
$6.95
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Description: Thomas O’Brien has compiled the personal accounts of over thirty present and former Catholic military chaplains serving the Church and the United States in the Archdiocese for Military Services. These vivid and moving accounts, drawn from the experiences of Catholic chaplains who served in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, show the courage and faith of the many priests who offer their lives to serve the men and women of the United States ... More
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Butler's Lives of the Saints: Complete Four Volume Edition
$149.95
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Description: Completed in 1956, this four-volume edition of Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints aims to provide brief, readable, and historically accurate biographies of the principal saints of the Catholic Church. Arranged by feast day, each of the some 2,565 entries provides a short biographical summary of the saint's life, ranging between one paragraph to several pages in length, and bibliographical notes for further research on the saint's life and ... More
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Captive Flames
Ronald Knox
$12.95
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Description: A delightful collection of over twenty sermons preached by Msgr. Ronald Knox on the lives of selected saints and other Christian heroes. With characteristic brilliance and wit, Knox, a master of the English language, describes the times and trials of holy Christians from St. Gregory the Great and St. Anselm to St. Therese of Lisieux and G.K. Chesterton. He shows how each of these Christian men and women displayed a timeless holiness born from ... More
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Catholic History Through Biography
$12.95
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Description: Concise and original, this treasury of outstanding Christian biographies offers readers an inspiring introduction to the two thousand-year history of Christianity through the lives of eighteen holy men and women who shaped its course. This collection of biographical sketches considers the lives of men in Christianity's formative years, like St. Ireneaus and St. Benedict, as well as great modern Christians, including Archbishop John Carroll and ... More
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Honey From the Rock
Roy H. Schoeman
$16.95
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Irene's Eyes
$12.00
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Description: Elly and Irene, Ugandans from Kitgum, had known for some that they had AIDS. When it became common knowledge, their friends and relatives totally deserted them. Until, one day, almost by chance, Irene was invited to a meeting with a group of friends. From that day on, her face began to shine again in all its former beauty. Emanating these same feelings to her husband:
"Looking at the moon that night, Elly realized that there was stil ... More
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Literary Converts
Joseph Pearce
$24.95
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Description: The twentieth-century featured a remarkable literary revival led by a group of Catholic converts including historians Hilaire Belloc and Christopher Dawson, novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, poets Siegfried Sassoon and Edith Sitwell, and a host of other Catholic writers. In this engaging study, Joseph Pearce describes the literary lives and conversions of these other Catholic literary converts and the "network of minds" they formed in ... More
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Married Saints and Blesseds Through the Centuries
Rev. Ferdinand Holbock
$18.95
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Description: Ferdinand Holbock presents biographical sketches of over 120 married saints and blesseds, from every age of the Cburch. These stories show how married Catholic saints and blesseds have dealt with the problems that face all married couples, and how a person may become holy precisely through fidelity to his or her vocation as a married person. In an age when the institution of marriage seems especially threatened, these biographies provide a ... More
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Modern Heroes of the Church
Leo Knowles
$13.95
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Description: Former BBC radio producer and newspaper editor Leo Knowles presents the stories of eighteen Catholic saints, blesseds, and heroes from the twentieth century. Narrating the biographies of Catholic men and women from all walks of life, including Pope John Paul I, Cardinal Basil Hume, and Blessed Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi and his wife Blessed Maria Corsini, Knowles shows how God continues to call his people to holiness even in the present ... More
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Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
$39.95
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Description: This encyclopedia contains the feast days and biographical essentials on some ten thousand saints of the Catholic Church. Helpful appendices include Church documents on the saints and their veneration and listings of patron saints, the Doctors of the Church, Marian feasts, martyrs of the United States, canonized popes, and other useful ... More
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