Lives of the Saints You Should Know

by Matthew Bunson, Charles Joseph McFadden, Margaret Bunson

Book Overview

Men and women who have done the hardest thing of all--lived lives of virtue so heroically that their deeds will be honored as long as there's Church. Let these superheoes and superheroines show you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879737530
• ISBN13: 9780879737535
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Recommended for children and teenagers

I bought this book because I was looking for something to tell me how some Saints lived their lives - something inspirational. This it did, in it's way. It provides a brief, but personal, summary of the lives of 21 famous and not-so-famous saints. However, it appears to have been written with a children to teenage audience in mind, and so was a bit simplistic for me, as an adult, in places. By the same token, for me, as a non-Catholic, the book was easy to understand and provided useful and thought-provoking insights into sainthood and Catholic beliefs. I would recommend this book mainly to an early-teen audience, but it can also provide a good introduction to sainthood and Catholic beliefs to people of all ages and religious persuasions.