| 39 New Saints You Should Know Contributor(s): O'Neel, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0867169281 ISBN-13: 9780867169287 Publisher: Servant Publications OUR PRICE: $13.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Saints & Sainthood - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Inspirational |
| Dewey: 282.092 |
| LCCN: 2010008923 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Foreword by Joseph Pearce Pope John Paul II canonized or beatified such a staggering number of people--well over fifteen hundred--that many of them remain as obscure after receiving their new title as they were before. If you have never heard of Bartolo Longo, the former satanic priest, you are not alone. And what about Enrico Rebuschini, who battled depression? Or the happily married Luigi and Maria Beltrame-Quattrocchi? In lively detail, Brian O'Neel tells the stories of these and more, a number of who are our near-contemporaries and coped with such horrors as Nazism (Jakob Gapp, Maria Restituta Kafka), slavery (Josephine Bakhita) or the Spanish Civil War (Vincente David Vilar). Amazing stories of ordinary human beings who demonstrate that holiness is not another word for boring, but a defining characteristic of those who threw themselves wholeheartedly into the adventure of life. |