Lives and Writings of the Saints

40 Days with the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas. There's a multitude of Lenten meditation books but only one that's packed with the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas. Journey through Lent with the...

Saint Alphonsus Ligouri offers here one of the most powerful and accessible primers on the art of prayer ever written.   The graces necessary for salvation cannot be obtained from God except by...

Wisdom's Fool: A Biography of Saint Louis de Montfort by Eddie Doherty. The famous journalist Eddie Doherty was a faithful Catholic and a man of ardent spirituality who found in the example and...

  In these pages, Fr. Aloysius Roche shows you the saints not so much from a new angle as from a less familiar one, a comfortable angle that makes for a certain coziness. Without diluting the...

  Sermons For Lent,  by Saint Francis de Sales Features twelve sermons on key aspects of the Christian life given during Lent, -- how to resist temptation, the danger of losing one’s soul, the...

  When she was about nine years old, Josephine Bakhita was kidnapped near Darfur, Sudan, by Arab slave traders. For several years she was subjected to brutal and humiliating treatment until she was...

  From 1899 until her death in 1903, the young Italian woman St. Gemma Galgani physically experienced the wounds of Christ every Thursday evening. The stigmata would appear and bleed on her hands,...

“Let us leave a saint to write the life of a saint.” —St. Thomas Aquinas In the annals of Christian sanctity, Dominic Savio emerges as a luminary, guiding the path of the faithful with the light of...

  “…in lively recitative ballad verse, Katharine Tynan tells the entire story of St. Patrick, without missing a single incident of any significance or importance. The book consists of thirty-two...

  Mornings with Saint Therese is a compilation of 120 daily readings which are short excerpts (no more than 1-3 pages) taken from the Little Flower's writings and also from those of her close family...

  Get the whole story of this beloved Saint, from her autobiography. Written at the request of her superior during her last illness at the age of 24, it is a stunning piece of spirituality, easy to...

  Thirteen beautiful sermons about Our Blessed Mother by this master of mystical theology and Doctor of the Church, published in English for the first time. Shows how Our Lady's life was rich in...

  For 2000 years now, young Christians have lived — and often died — for Christ, and with a courage that many adults find hard to muster. Although she was just thirteen, in 304 pagan authorities...

"Listen, Father Jerzy, today is September 14, your birthday. So if you are supposed to do something, this is the day!" So prayed Father Bernard Brien beside the bed of a dying man. As soon as the...

  Though written for children 12 and older, this is also the best biography for adults of St. Louis De Montfort, the "Apostle of Mary," famous preacher and author of True Devotion to Mary and The...

Adoration is love, and eucharistic adoration is love of Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament. In the Gospels there are few people who understand love for Jesus as well as Mary Magdalene, which is...

  These pages remind us that God's grace can conquer every human flaw . . . Christ came not to call saints but to make them — often out of weak, stupid, and sinful men. That’s why the...

  Evelyn Waugh presents the 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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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,...

  “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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

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...

St. Francis Borgia (1510–1572) was a member of a devout and influential family in Spain, served as the Duke of Gandia, and was a favorite of Charles V. He penned these pages as an exercise during a...

  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...

  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...