Books About Saints Holy People

— Kimberly Begg In the battle for our children’s souls, Catholic parents have a key advantage over the world: our families are destined for heaven. God willed us to exist now — in a world that ...

A BIOGRAPHY OF SISTER MARIA LUCIA OF JESUS AND THE IMMACULATE HEART. Get to know Sister Lucia intimately through the eyes of the Carmelite Sisters who shared in her daily life for 57 years at the Carmel in ...

-Mike Aquilina “A TREMENDOUS BREAKTHROUGH” in the study of St. Joseph......There are few subjects so challenging” to authors as St. Joseph. So says scholar Scott Hahn in his foreword to this book. Yet the pages ...

— Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle, Catholic author, radio and television host, and inspirational speaker - a very public figure has actually kept her personal life experiences very ...

Every man’s life is acted out between two great events: his birth and his death. Man has two outlooks: an outlook toward life, and an outlook toward death. The pagan world was, for the most part, oppressed with ...

— Dale Ahlquist Who was Gilbert Keith Chesterton? A rotund man in a cape brandishing a walking stick? Certainly. A twentieth-century writer? Prolifically. A great champion and defender of the Christian ...

In his memoir, Fr. Benedict Groeschel introduces you to the men and women who influenced him. Some are unknown, such as Mr. Graff, a Jewish man who tailored the suit the young man would wear to the seminary. His ...

— Sister Lucia Treanor, FSE Elwood Euart was born in 1914 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the second of seven children in a faithful Catholic family. Athletic, responsible, and likeable, Elwood was just an ...

“The Church today demands a profound renewal of celibate priesthood and the fatherhood to which it is ordered.” Priestly celibacy, some say, is an outdated relic from another age. Others see it as a lonely way ...

— Victoria Schneider St. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia 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. ...

— Deacon Matthew Halbach How do you see the people and the world around you? Have you wondered how God views us, others, and creation? When we look at things through God’s eyes, everything changes. Suddenly, ...

— Michael R. Heinlein — Foreword by Archbishop José H. Gomez Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I., was a model pastor and a heroic disciple of Christ. A native Chicagoan, he was told as a young man that ...

— Mary Haseltine, with Foreword by Joseph Pearce and Introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney These moving Memoirs reveal the full story of the legendary hero-priest József Mindszenty, who has come to be regarded ...

THE HEROIC LIFE OF VENERABLE ALOYSIUS SCHWARTZ -- Kevin Wells In 1957, at twenty-seven years old, Washington D.C. native Fr. Aloysius Schwartz asked to be sent to the saddest place in the world: South Korea in the ...

— Kevin Wilson Each of us has the potential to become a saint. We're especially reminded of this when we receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, usually as a teenager, and choose a saint as our patron and ...

Blessed Stanley Rother, Martyr from Oklahoma, Revised “The Shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger,” said Fr. Stanley Francis Rother, the Martyr from Oklahoma. Author and journalist Marfa Ruiz Scaperlanda ...

THE HIDDEN HEROES BEHIND OUR FAVORITE SAINTS -Patrick O'Hearn As parents, helping our children get to Heaven is of the utmost importance. The only other alternative is Hell, and both destinations are for eternity. ...

75 Saints Who Sinned, Suffered, and Struggled on Their Way to Holiness -Meg Hunter-Kilmer How is it possible that a chain-smoking socialist, a teenage video gamer, an opium addict, a satanic high priest, a ...

HOW FAULT-FILLED, PROBLEM-PRONE, IMPERFECT PEOPLE LIKE US CAN BE HOLY -Bert Ghezzi Saints at Heart  presents an engaging picture of the spiritual life as shown in the experience and writings of the ...