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Robert T. Reilly

Brief lives of canonized saints and other good people from Irish history, including St. Patrick and St. Brigid, as well as Matt Talbot and Bishop Galvin.

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Peter Brown

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.

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Solveig Muus and Bart Tesoriero

Every girl needs to know she is cherished. She needs to share her heart with someone who will honor, esteem, and care for her. She needs to believe there is a God who loves her personally and has a vision for her life. In Saints for Girls, we share stories of real-life girls and women who responded whole-heartedly to Jesus and His love. Some of these holy women were warriors like Saint Joan of Arc, writers and counselors like Saint Catherine of Siena, pioneers like Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, and visionaries like Saint Bernadette. Parents, grandparents, all who care for children, and girls in particular, will enjoy many warm and wonderful 'teaching moments' in the pages of this beautifully illustrated new classic.

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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.