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Visionaries Mystics and Stigmatists Part I Table of Contents: Saint Catherine of Bologna Visionary, Mystic, Role Model for Abesses, Incorrupt Body Saint Catherine of Genoa Wife, Humanitarian, Christian Model, Mystic Saint Rose of Lima Patroness of the Americas Saint Martin de Porres Apostle of Charity, Saint of the Slaves

The author lives in Fatima and has written extensively on the Shrine – its history, significance and message. In Armchair Fatima he has written and entertaining, informative and often outrageously humorous book on this Marian jewel based on his researches and occasional work as a guide.His object...

Reading Robert Ellsberg’s profiles of holy men and women is like throwing open a window in a stuffy old church and taking in great gulps of fresh air. Henri Nouwen has described his writing as “evocative without being pious.” He broadens the traditional vision of sanctity and calls modern readers...

The most thorough book about the Angels yet written! Here, bestselling author Joan Carroll Cruz expounds upon the traditional definitions and delineations of the Angels and Devils, asking and answering virtually every conceivable question about them. Among the many recent books about Angels, this...

St. Paschal Baylon is one of the most multi-faceted diamonds the Church has ever contained in its Treasury of Faith. He is a lay person, never having been ordained a priest. And yet he is the Patron of Eucharistic Congresses and Confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament. His whole life centered around...

This is the inspiring story of the famous Father Miguel Pro who was executed in Mexico in 1927 for the crime of being a Catholic priest. This young Jesuit spent most of his short life in the priesthood dodging the Mexican police as he ministered to the underground Church during the Mexican Revolution....

The sons of St. Dominic were the first to preach the Gospel in the land of the Incas. They had shared the perils of the Peruvian adventure with Pizarro in the same boat in which he and his men sailed south through the Pacific. Missionaries of many other orders followed them: Franciscans, Augustinians,...

Spanish housewife widowed with four small children after six years of marriage. Spent her life working, rearing her children, praying, doing charity, etc. Attended three Masses daily. A great inspiration for women! 240 pgs;

In 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe came on Tepeyac Hill and identified Herself as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. Almost one hundred years later, we find that these Indians, too, had a devotion to Our Lady, with their hearts centered on a statue they referred to as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception....

Small Pox struck and it accomplished what no conqueror was able to bring about. Nine out of every ten members of a family were struck down by this deadly plague. Everyone was helpless! Their trusted medicine men were not familiar with this sickness that threatened to annihilate 90% of the population,...

A contemporary selection of Catholic classics, curated for the modern reader by Our Sunday Visitor in the spirit of our founder, Archbishop John Francis Noll.

Normalmente, los santos no son lo primero que nos viene a la cabeza al pensar en Nueva York. En este librito, sin embargo, Alberto Royo Mejía relata la vida de siete católicos ejemplares que nacieron en Nueva York o vivieron durante mucho tiempo en la Gran Manzana, dos de ellos ya canonizados.Se...

Adaptación al castellano actual de tres sermones de San Vicente Ferrer acerca del Anticristo y el Juicio final, predicados entre 1411 y 1412.

La “bella virtù”; así llamaba San Juan Bosco a la hermosísima virtud angélica; aquélla que nos hace semejantes a los ángeles del Cielo y que, si nos mantenemos firmes, nos hará ver al mismo Dios verdadero (Mt 5,8). Es Ella: la virtud tan amada y tan buscada una hermosa damisela que...