New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church: Blesseds and Saints Canonized by Pope John Paul II During the Years 1979-1983
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In this volume a master of hagiography presents thirty-seven new Blesseds and five Saints beatified and canonized by Pope John Paul II. These are new faces, some of them our contemporaries, who followed Christ under circumstances that were completely different from those of the saints of earlier ages who had the privilege of living in a world that was still more or less whole. The short biographies each include an illustration of the saint, and part of the homily given by the Pope at the canonization or beatification.
In this book you will meet men and women who come from eras of great conflict, who in a heroic way remained faithful to Christ and to His Church, and so have become, as Vatican II says, “companions of our human condition”. When the prophet Elijah on his forty-day journey to Mount Horeb collapsed in exhaustion, an angel came to him and strengthened him. The Saints have the power and the duty to help us, to set us aright and teach us strategy for our battle with the powers of darkness. Let us get to know them, so that we can call on them by name. Illustrated
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This book is a wonderful collection of stories about those who have recently been canonized.
The tales range from Joseph de Anchieta, born in 1534, who became an apostle to the natives of Brazil. He walked “‘Barefoot, with his mission cross and rosary around his neck…lost in the depths of the widerness, encountered ferocious beasts…he carried on for one reason only: to win souls’” (p 29).
Although most of the biographies are of people you are not likely to have read about before, there are also some names you are likely to be familiar with, such as Kateri Tekakwitha, who who became an example of true spirituality to the Mohawk nation, and St Maximilian Kolbe, who gave up his life in place of another man at Auschwitz.
A good book to meditate with.