Pocket Dictionary of Saints by Delaney, John économies J. NEUF

Product Name: Pocket Dictionary of Saints by Delaney, John économies J. NEUF
EAN：9780385515207 UPC：9780385515207 économies ISBN：9780385515207 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 720 pages, 2nd Edition
Newly revised and updated with entries for the recently canonized, this volume, now available in paperback, contains over 5,000 entries on major and minor saints. This is the definitive resource for information and research on saints. This book is for Catholics.

The preeminent resource guide for more than twenty years, this one-of-a-kind book, now available in paperback, has been updated to include those recently canonized and beatified.

Since its original publication in 1980, John J. Delaneys Dictionary of Saints (more than 200,000 copies sold) has become the leading reference book for the scholar and general reader alike. With more than five thousand biographies of the saints-from the well known to the obscure-this new edition brings to life the inspiring accomplishments of these men and women of God. The martyrs and the monks, the mystics and the virgins, the doctors and the peasants are all contained in this essential volume. To know the saints, how they thrived in their achievements, how they lived in destitution, is to meet a fascinating company of people whose actions have influenced and enriched the history of the world.

Reset in an easy-to use-format, it contains substantial listings for the more popular saints, and thumbnail sketches for those less well known. From Aaron to Zosimus, this modern dictionary has been updated with the entries for the newly canonized, including Italian mystic Padre Pio, Mexican Nahuatl Juan Diego, Polish Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe, and Americans Katharine Drexel and Rose Philippine Duchesne. It also contains a complete listing of feast days, an index of patron saints, and several other useful appendixes..