The Pocket Guide to the Saints

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Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Religion - 352 pages

This pocket edition of Richard McBrien's Lives of the Saints is the perfect concise, handy reference for scholars, students, and general readers.

 

Contents

WHO IS A SAINT?
1
expression and the process by which saints are proclaimed and canon
2
SAINTS AND SPIRITUALITIES
17
PROCESS AND POLITICS
41
LIVES OF THE SAINTS
55
January
56
February
94
March
121
October
399
November
444
December
482
SAINTS AND THE CHURCH
529
TABLES
551
Feast Days of the Saints
553
Patron Saints
569
Places and Their Patron Saints
579

April
150
May
185
June
221
July
267
August
305
September
357
Groups Causes and Their Patron Saints
584
Emblems in Art and Iconography
595
Glossary
614
Select Bibliography
623
Index of Subjects
639
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2009)

Richard P. McBrien is Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A leading authority on Catholicism, he is the bestselling author of Catholicism, Lives of the Popes, and Lives of the Saints, as well as the general editor of The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism. Most recently a consultant for ABC News, McBrien offers regular commentary on all the major television networks. He is also a prizewinning syndicated columnist in the Catholic press.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Pocket Guide to the Saints
AuthorRichard P. McBrien
PublisherHarper Collins, 2009
ISBN0061763659, 9780061763656
Length352 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Religion / Christian Living / General
Religion / Christian Living / Inspirational
Religion / Christianity / Catholic
Religion / General
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