Father Stubna's Recommendations - test note
Includes index.
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1985.
Physical description
xv, 466 p.; 25 cm
Other editions
Butler's lives of the saints by Alban Butler (Paper Book)
User reviews
LibraryThing member dbsovereign
We are transformed by the people we have been transmuted from herein portrayed. A lovely book of stories of places we have been and will forever inhabit. Their stories are our stories.
LibraryThing member hermit
This is an abridged edition of Butler's four-volume set that sits on our shelves. This volume list one saint for each day of the year. The editor uses the day of their death, which has been restored as the principal occasion for liturgical observance of a saint's life, work, and virtue. The work
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has also been updated to list those blesseds who have been become saints as of 1956. The reduced number of biographies of the saints in this book has a slight bias to Anglo Saxon saints and the two wholly new saints are from the United States. The editor has also updated the entries and modified the language to modern English, He has also deleted pious exhortations allowing the saints achievements and eccentricities speak for themselves. Though a handy modern catholic beside book, it is no substitute for the original four-volume set. Show Less
Original publication date
1756-1759
1956 (revision upon which this is based)
1985
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