Any good books on Saints?

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Hello to everybody on this fine night!! 😃

I was curious to know if anybody knows any great books about Saints, for I am highly interested in purchasing one or two.

Thank you and God bless,
Melani
 
Story of a Soul-St. Therese of Lisieux
Very recommendable.

St. Katherine Drexel

Mark Twain-Joan of Arc
 
The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine is a good reference book on hagiography.
 
Saint Among the Hurons by Father Francis X. Talbot. A biography of St. Jean De Brebeuf. It’s out of print, but can be found used and is excellent.
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St. Athanasius* by F.A. Forbes is shorter but also good.

The Desert Fathers by Peter H. Gorg focuses on St. Anthony of the Desert but also includes other early monastic saints and is very good.

The 33 Doctors of the Church by Fr. Christopher Rengers gives you an overview of each of the Saints honored with the title Doctor.

The Youngest Prophet also by Fr. Christopher Rengers details the life of Blessed Jacinta Marto and is an excellent introduction to Fatima. Your reaction might be different, but it trul is one of the few books that has profoundly changed my life.

Pax Christi
 
I strongly recommend Lives of the Saints by Richard P. McBrien.

Its like a handbook to me, I have it with me, easy to use to find information about any saint, and their feast days! It has saints from A-Z From earliest as Mary to latest as John XXIII and Mother Teresa 🙂

God bless
 
I recommend Father James Martin 's My Life With the Saints.Ihave given it to several friends as a gift and they really enjoyed it.
 
Well I have one, and it is called, " Book of Saints" for Catholice Childern by Fr Daniel Lord,. It show the Saint and then has a story about that Saint.I LOVE looking at this book and reading about the Saint and his life.
 
If you have an e-reader, like Kindle, Ipad or Nook, please see my website, catholicchurchsaints.com . I have written several books and ebooks, especially focusing on miracles of various saints. I have purposely kept them very inexpensive.

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Butler’s Lives of the Saints gives a good synopsis of many of the canonized saints in our tradition.
 
I’ve only read a few chapters so far, but I absolutely love The Confessions by St. Augustine!!!

Also, Story of a Soul by St. Therese is another one I hope to read.
 
You might try some saints’ lives such as Adomnan of Iona’s Life of St. Columba

amazon.com/Life-St-Columba-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140444629/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421209630&sr=8-1&keywords=life+of+st.+columba&pebp=1421209633707&peasin=140444629

Or if you want to read an academic type book, try Robert Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (Princeton University Press, 2013)

amazon.com/Why-Dead-Such-Great-Things/dp/0691159130/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421209476&sr=8-1&keywords=why+do+the+dead+saints&pebp=1421209481138&peasin=691159130
 
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