Lives of the Saints You Should Know: Volume One

by Matthew Bunson and Margaret Bunson

Book Overview

2000 years of sanctity add up to one thing -- unsurpassed models of holiness for this (and every) century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879735767
• ISBN13: 9780879735760
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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.