Saints for girls

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V. Sackville-West

The lives of these two saints with similar names could hardly be more contrasting. St. Teresa, reformer of the Carmelites, 'busy woman and great saint', endured the religious mania of sixteenth-century Spain and lived in a state of near perpetual ecstasy. Thérèse, on the other hand, lived the quiet life of a nun in late-nineteenth-century France, was meek, devout and perhaps rather dim. She became a saint of the common people, largely because of the ordinariness of her life (excepting the odd vision).

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Susan Helen Wallace

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led French armies at God's command, was burned at the stake as a heretic, and later canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Includes a prayer and glossary of terms.

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Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Describes the characteristics, behavior, and special organs of different spiders including the water spider, orb web spider, black widow, and tarantula.

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Martin Wallace

With the collapse of the Roman Empire, it was the Celtic Church which kept the flames of Christianity burning. This gift book tells the story of those missionaries who, throughout the sixth and seventh centuries, travelled throughout Europe in their battle against paganisim. Most of the saints in this book belong to that golden age of the Celtic Church. Their stories can only be a mixture of fact and legend. Fact is certainly discernible in the stone remains of their buildings, less often in the fanciful biographies written centuries after their deaths. But who knows where truth ends and myth begins? The stories of Patrick of Ireland and Brendan the Navigator may be the best known, but those of Columba of Iona, David of Wales and Aidan of Lindisfarne are, amongst others, equally fascinating. Each has been beautifully illustrated by Ann MacDuff. Christianity. History. Celts.