Lives and Writings of the Saints

Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered priest as "a simple, perfectly true story of heroism and holiness." But it is written with a novelist's...

These fascinating dreams involve prophecy and reading of hearts, with a powerful spiritual message. Includes: To Hell and Back, Two Boys Attacked by a Monster, The Snake and the Rosary, and many more. These dreams led to many conversions and will...

The early Roman virgin-martyr whose bones were discovered in 1802. She immediately began answering prayers, with so many favors and miracles being granted that she was raised to sainthood by Pope Gregory XVI--becoming the only person recognized by the...

The Letters of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and Those Who Knew Her. General Correspondence, vol. 2 This sequel to volume 1 contains all of Thérèse's letters from the end of September 1890 (during her novitiate) until her...

The Hurons stared at the giant young Norman, as tall and broad as they, a Jesuit priest robed in black and with a full black beard on his gentle face. He was to live among them for nineteen years, patiently and with enormous difficulty learning their...

The heroic story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a modern apostle of Catholic evangelization, Marian spirituality, and a martyr of charity. The dramatic and moving life of this Polish Franciscan who volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner in...

Though nothing historical is known of her, she was declared a Saint in 1837, only 35 years after discovery of her relics. Here is the whole incredible story, plus many accounts of her tremendous favors and miracles. Another St. Jude to call on in our...

This is the definitive life of Saint Catherine Laboure, the humble Sister who was privileged with apparitions of Our Lady. Through her, Our Lady had the Miraculous Medal made and promoted, which became a source of tremendous graces and conversions...

The key to happiness from one who found it in joyful abundance: St. Thérèse of Lisieux. This spiritual classic has long been beloved by Catholics for its wondrous distillation of the teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux into a...

  “His look, his word, his whole being  express three things: goodness, firmness, faith. Goodness was the man himself; firmness was the leader; faith was the Christian,  the priest, the pontiff, the man of God.” —Chapter...

In this fascinating book, Father Schouppe presents the ancient Catholic tradition on Purgatory, explaining how its pains are excruciating – greater than any suffering known to earth, how they are adapted to the past sins of each individual soul,...

True tales of horror and holiness… French priests enter a war zone where captured Westerners are paraded before their captors, tortured, and then beheaded. Their desecrated bodies get dumped by the roadside. Iraq in 2007? The Gaza Strip?...

“The kingdom of heaven is the perfect and highest wisdom of the rational soul . . . in which only the righteous and holy shall reign.” —Saint Augustine   Step onto the mount and listen as one of Christianity’s greatest...

  Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, the Autobiography of a Hunted Priest. This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizabethan England is a most remarkable document and John Gerard,...