Lives of the Saints

by Omer Englebert

Book Overview

THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS PRESENTS CONCISE AND HISTORICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION ON MORE THAN 2,00 LEGENDARY FIGURES OF HAGIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. HERE ARE THE INTERESTING FACS AND COLORFUL SETTINGS OF THE... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566195160
• ISBN13: 9781566195164
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Good Book for Reference.

This hardcover edition of 1994, published by Barnes and Noble, is the most recent English translation of Fr Omer Englebert's 'Lives of the Saints'. It gives accurate profiles of more than 2300 men and women canonized by the Catholic Church. Nearly a thousand who have left their mark on history are given short biographical accounts. The others have a sentence or two in order to situate each of them. They are all organized month by month according to the liturgical calendar of the Church. This book was originally compiled and published in the 1950s receiving its 'imprimatur' on 20th February 1951. The present edition is not updated or revised. Therefore it does not take into consideration the many revisions of the liturgical calendar afterwards, which have rearranged some feast dates for a few saints and reordered the importance of a few in the liturgical calendar. In the last half of a century numerous new saints have been added to the list, who have not found their way into this book. So it is a little outdated and cannot be used along with the present Church calendar. But it remains a good source book for students interested in the saints of the Church. A very useful index at the end is especially noteworthy.