Butler's Lives of the SaintsThis new concise Butler's provides an essay on one saint for each day of the month, using the twelve-volume full edition of Butler's Lives of the Saints as a source. Selections are made from both categories of Saint" and *Blessed - - canonized and beatified, allowing for the increasing proportion of women and of new- and third-world holy people. Completely rewritten in a popular style, this volume also has more *spiritual - appeal than the full edition. A prayer and intercessory reflection is included after each entry, which lend themselves to family or small-group meditation as well as to individual devotion. The volume also suggests baptismal/confirmation names for the day's commemorations or for inclusion in prayers. Paul Burns is the general editor of theButler's Lives of the Saints series published by Liturgical Press. |
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... Church . Canonization itself was originally a decision of a local church or council , in response to popular demand . It was officially reserved to the papacy from about 1200 , though local " saints " were still recognized as such ...
... Church - the com- memoration of All Souls on 2 November . He started this as an observance for the monks of Cluny and all the other communities in the Cluniac family , requiring them , on the day following All Saints , to pray for ...
... Church and State authority , which convinced him that there was a limit to the Christian duty of obedience to the State , a vital insight at a time when Christianity was in danger of losing its way by becoming the official religion of ...
... church of SS Peter and Paul in Paris . She was buried there , and the fame of miracles worked at her tomb spread all over France , so that the church became known as St Genevieve's . Belief in the power of her intercession was ...
... Church . Apparently at Basil's suggestion , he was elected bishop of Nyssa , in Lower Armenia , in 372. Nyssa was a hotbed of Arianism , and Gregory lacked Basil's administrative and diplomatic skills in dealing with theological ...
Contents
508 | 567 |
St Damasus I | 575 |
St Jane Frances de Chantal | 577 |
St Juan Diego | 579 |
St John of the Cross | 581 |
St Venantius Fortunatus | 583 |
Bd Philip Siphong and Companions | 584 |
St Melania the Younger | 586 |
Bd Agnellus of Pisa | 116 |
St Nicholas Owen | 131 |
St Ludger of Münster | 137 |
Bd Restituta Kafka | 201 |
St Francis of Paola | 209 |
St Matthias | 217 |
St Aldhelm | 241 |
Bd Christopher Magallanes | 247 |
St Bernardino Realino | 304 |
Bd Baptista Varani | 319 |
English and Welsh Martyrs | 339 |
SS Martha Mary | 348 |
St Gregory the Great | 412 |
St Eusebius of Vercelli | 419 |
St Helena | 443 |
Bd Thomas Percy | 449 |
St Ignatius of Antioch | 484 |
Bd Louis Guanella | 557 |
St Winnibald | 587 |
Bd Urban V | 589 |
St Thorlac | 590 |
St Peter Canisius | 592 |
St Frances Xavier Cabrini | 594 |
St Margaret dYouville | 596 |
Bd Bartholomew dal Monte | 597 |
St Peter Nolasco | 599 |
St Stephen | 600 |
St John | 602 |
St Gaspar del Bufalo | 604 |
St Thomas Becket | 606 |
St JohnFrancis Régis | 608 |
St Catherine Labouré | 609 |
Chronological List of Saints by Date of Death | 612 |
Glossary | 623 |