Families and individuals will find it serves as a source of devotions and adds to their spirituality and prayer life.

I purchased this in the spring of 2011 when I was a Protestant possibly interested in becoming a Catholic Christian. He also prepared material for Richard Challoner's Memoirs of Missionary Priests, a work on the martyrs of the reign of Elizabeth. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Great for a daily meditation; each life is followed by a "lesson" from the life to help us apply the virtues of the Saint to ourselves.Butler goes off on enormous tangents in his descriptions, often spending dozens of pages describing a war, a political situation or a heresy that happened during the life of the saint without really affecting the saint directly. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. He gives us saints who are examples of Christian living, who provide inspiration for our own lives, in every time and circumstance. His father died when he was young and he was sent to the Lancashire boarding school run by Dame Alice.

I found most of the saints, especially the martyrs, depressing, not inspiring and somewhat akin to the religious radicals of today. Some Saints suffered the horrendous torture that evil men contrived to attempt to get them to renounce their faith and worship idols. Butler's Lives of the Saints includes information on a variety of men and women who lived the gospel-from the first to the twentieth century-from such diverse areas as Western and Eastern Europe, and the Near East. Father Herbert Thurston, SJ, edited and significantly rewrote the work; his 12-volume "Revised Edition" was published between 1926 and 1938.A Benedictine Monk In 2007, Our Lord and Our Lady began to speak to the heart of a monk in the silence of adoration. It can show the vibrancy and wonder of the Lord's miracles and also the simplicity of devotion to Him, the Almighty. This book has also been extensively revised, altered, and updated since its original publication, with new editions, even 21st century revisions being made, that we feel the time is ripe for an original, unexpurgated, and unrevised print version to be made available. Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints provides believers with saints that are spread over the Roman Catholic Church’s liturgical year.

It was founded in 1999 from the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault in France and is located in the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Second, maximum space has been allotted to authenticated achievements and contributions of the saints, omitting information of doubtful origin.I highly recommend using Lives of the Saints as part of a daily regimen to deepen one's faith by way of being introduced to inspiring examples of faith. As someone who isn't Catholic and whose (rather deficient) knowledge of church history is focused more on the Orthodox world, it was an interesting read. Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am. J., and Donald Attwater to retain the charms of Butler’s original prose style, this work of devotion and scholarship offers truths central to Christianity and underlying themes of Christian love. A valuable aid to devotion and a rich source of historical information, Butler's Lives of the Saints, through its concise biographies, remains a helpful and authoritative reference.