Dictionary of Saints by John Delaney

Dictionary of Saints by John Delaney

The preeminent resource guide for more than twenty years, this one-of-a-kind book, now available in paperback, has been updated to include those recently canonized and beatified.
Since its original publication in 1980, John J. Delaney's Dictionary of Saints (more than 200,000 copies sold) has become the leading reference book for the scholar and general reader alike. With more than five thousand biographies of the saints--from the well known to the obscure--this new edition brings to life the inspiring accomplishments of these men and women of God. The martyrs and the monks, the mystics and the virgins, the doctors and the peasants are all contained in this essential volume. To know the saints, how they thrived in their achievements, how they lived in destitution, is to meet a fascinating company of people whose actions have influenced and enriched the history of the world.
Reset in an easy-to use-format, it contains substantial listings for the more popular saints, and thumbnail sketches for those less well known. From Aaron to Zosimus, this modern dictionary has been updated with the entries for the newly canonized, including Italian mystic Padre Pio, Mexican Nahuatl Juan Diego, Polish Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe, and Americans Katharine Drexel and Rose Philippine Duchesne. It also contains a complete listing of feast days, an index of patron saints, and several other useful appendixes.

From 1975 until 1980, Arthur Jones was the editor of the National Catholic Reporter, then editor-at-large for the next two decades. He was a Forbes associate editor and European Bureau head, as well as a Financial Times correspondent. Among his past works are biographies of M. Malcolm Forbes, Scott Peck, and Pierre Toussaint. http://arthurjonesbooks.com/ is a website dedicated to the author Arthur Jones.

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ISBN 13	9780385135948
ISBN 10	0385135947
Title	Dictionary of Saints
Author	John Delaney
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Doubleday
Year published	1980-09-03
Number of pages	702
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.