Favorite Saint book

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What is your favorite book written by or about a saint?
Include the title and the author. Also, why is it your favorite?
 
The Autobiography of Teresa of Avila. Because, no matter how many times I read it, there is always more there. Amazing woman, amazing book!!
 
A small, short book by the innocuous name of Have a Nice Dayis a compilation of sayings by Padre Pio. It encapsulizes our spiritual journeys very powerfully; and it never fails to uplift my heart.
 
any book about St. Maximillan Kolbe…sorry for the lack of info
 
Hello Jenlyn,
My favorite is “Picture Book of the Saints” by Lawrence G. Lovasik. The book is here: catholicfreeshipping.com/Products/cfs_gensym-188.html

I got my first copy for first communion in 2nd grade and I read it many times. Each page is devoted to a different saint. The artwork is very traditional and is still burned in my mind, even after almost 40 years. I recently bought a copy of my kids and they love it just as much.

Oh, and SAINThoodSEEKER, Maximillian Kolbe is in there.
 
The Life of St. Antony by St. Athanasius.

This is a phenomenal book that you can get through in two hours. A protestant friend of mine described Antony as “Superman for Catholics” after we read the book for a class.
 
Story of a Soul by St. Therese. I found it by “accident” at a library 10 years ago and have never been the same since. Close 2nd is St. Bernadette Soubirous by Abbe Trochu. This is the first “Catholic” book I read (12 years ago) and opened the way for Story of a Soul. I also found this one by accident, but at a resale shop. The previous owner had clipped news articles from the 1940s about Lourdes and tucked them in.

As I think about it, they were both necessary to me, like a Volume 1 and 2 of a work. 😃 I read *Bernadette *which was my intro to Catholicism, then Little Therese came along and explained it.

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I LOVED Story of a Soul. St. Therese just seemed so real. Sometimes when I read about Saints, I just feel like it’s impossible for little ol’ me, and I just didn’t feel that way after reading her book. She is so inspiring. I even think at the end of the book it said that a particular nun didn’t think that Therese really did (or was) anything special. But then you read her writings and you realize how intelligent, poetic, and spiritual she was. Here she was this woman who at the age of 15 or 16 became a cloistered nun that never left Carmel and died at the age of 23, but is now recognized not only as a saint, but a Doctor of the Church.
And who says women in the Church aren’t powerful?
 
Hello,

my favourite has to be Saint Faustina’s diary. What a read, a real eye opener!

God bless,
Noel.
 
Phyllis McKinley had a little book called something like Saints for Our Times, with short bios of saints relating their lives to struggles faced by ordinary people today. They were witty, short and really conveyed not only the holiness but the personality of the saints very well. Some were poems, some essays. The one on St. Thomas More especially struck me, included a poem where the refrain of each verse was the names of his children: Margaret, Elizabeth, Cecily and John. did such a good job in that short work of showing his relationship with his wife and family and what he sacrificed for the truth in his martyrdom.
 
One of my favorites is “The Message of St. Francis: with Frescoes from the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi” by Sister Nan and Father Maximilian Mizzi.

This book contains short excerpts from the writings of St. Francis and biographies of him. The frescoes pictured illustrate scenes from St. Francis’ life (these are the frescoes that survived when an earthquake hit the area).

I find the excerpts make very nice meditations.

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I have a huge devotion to St. Bernadette since I was a young girl. There is a new book out about her spiritual writings called “A Holy Life” Its great. I have read her biographies. My faith was also greatly inhanced by reading Story of a Soul and then reading St. Faustina’s Diary. These 3 powerful women have totally changed my spiritual life.

I am now reading “The Fourty Dreams of St. John Bosco” Awesome book as well.
 
Interior Castle - St. Teresa of Avilla
Ascent of Mt Carmel - St John of the Cross
True Devotion to Mary - St Louis de Montfort

Story of a Soul - St. Therese (the little flower)
My Sister St. Therese
St. Therese The little Flower The Making of a Saint

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