The 200-year-old Butler's Lives of the Saints has undergone a thorough revision and rewriting and is now presented as a 12-volume set categorized according to months of the year. This volume includes those saints commemorated in November.
The first edition of Butler's Lives of the Saints was written by Alban Butler between 1756 and 1759. Herbert Thurston, S.J., produced the Revised Edition of Butler's Lives in twelve volumes between 1926 and 1938.
The political consequence of this wedding was the consolidation of Otto's Italian power. Otto and Adelaide had five children, but problems arose when a son by his first wife became jealous of his stepmother. This young man attempted to ...
The twelve volumes of the revised Butler's Lives of the Saints correspond to the months of the year; each volume contains entries on saints with feast days in that month.
Brief, authoritative entries present a wealth of knowledge on individual saints' lives and deeds, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.
The 200-year-old Butler's Lives of the Saints has undergone a thorough revision and rewriting and is now presented as a 12-volume set categorized according to months of the year. This volume includes those saints commemorated in October.
Butler's Lives of the Saints is the most revered Catholic book after the Bible, the Missal and The Imitation of Christ. A Saint or two for each day of the...
Now, in this new edition of the original classic, Michael Walsh has culled the ruch resources of earlier editions to accentuate the more modern and best-documented saints.
Butler's Lives of Saints
Approximately 100 of them lived in the twentieth century. This new book is also unique in that it uses the saint's own words wherever possible, taking advantage of newly discovered archives, memoirs and other primary sources.
spent four months working with the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa's religious order, in Kingston, Jamaica. During our first year as novices, we were asked to go on a “third world experiment.” (“Experiment” is Jesuit lingo for ...