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Lives of the Saints and Christian
Heroes
Modern culture often
makes war on heroes, depriving young people of good role models and
instilling a sense that the struggle against sin and error is
pointless. These
books disprove that claim and provide a host of outstanding examples
for young and old alike.
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Ages 14 and up
The Dialogues of
Saint Gregory the Great
Edited by Edmund G.
Gardner
Having
witnessed
the
endless
string
of
disasters
that
shattered
his
beloved
Italy
in
the
late
6th
century
AD,
Pope
Saint
Gregory
the
Great
set
down
in
the
Dialogues a
sequence of tales to help his contemporaries escape from their worldly
troubles and contemplate eternal life. Peter, Gregory’s interlocutor,
laments that he has never heard of anyone famous in Italy for virtue.
To set him straight, Gregory offers an entire litany of stories of
Italian saints—from Honoratus of Funda who pinned a great rock to a
mountainside to prevent it from crushing an abbey, to Florentius and
his ill-fated bear. Perhaps most importantly, Gregory’s Dialogues contain an entire book
dedicated to the life of Saint Benedict of Nursia--the oldest and most
detailed biography of this important Church father.
To modern readers, these tales of visions,
miracles and extraordinary Christian virtue paint a vivid portrait of
daily life amid the wreckage of once-prosperous Roman Italy. In
addition, the Dialogues offer
a glimpse into the theology of one of the great minds of the Church
during the time when Roman authority ebbed forever in the West and
ecclesiastical authority emerged to fill the void. More...
Paperback ~ 360 pp. ~ $22.95
with 20% discount, $18.36 |
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Ages 10 and up
El Cid: God’s Own
Champion
The True Story of the
Knight of Vivar
by James Fitzhenry
El Cid, God’s Own Champion is an
inspiring new biography of the extraordinary Catholic knight chosen by
God
to save his nation from Islamic aggression. Known by the honorary title
of El Cid, Rodrigo Diaz is a legendary hero whose story is directly
relevant to
modern times. Exiled by his king, insulted and maligned by those who
should have supported him, he selflessly fought against seemingly
insurmountable odds to save Christian Spain. He commanded the respect
even of his enemies--upon his death a Muslim historian acclaimed him,
“a miracle among the great miracles of the Almighty.” The Cid is an
example of what can be achieved through devotion to duty, prayer, and
trust in God.
Paperback ~ 186 pp. ~ $15.95
with 10% discount, $14.36 |
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Ages 12 and up
St. Fernando III
A Kingdom for Christ
by James Fitzhenry
The
greatest
Spanish
monarch,
King
of
Castile
and
Leon,
St.
Fernando
III
was
born
in
the
year
1199
-
exactly
100
years
after
the
death
of
his
illustrious
ancestor,
El
Cid.
In
him
would be combined the soul of a
knight dedicated entirely to God, the irresistible power of the Cid,
and
due to his royal heritage, the authority to marshal the might of an
entire kingdom against the enemies of Christ. Personally leading his
armies into battle, he took back more territory from Islam than any
other king in history. First cousin of St. Louis IX of France, he died
a
saintly death in the year 1252. His incorrupt body can still be seen in
the Cathedral of Seville, and his feastday, May 30th, is a holy
day of obligation in Spain.
Paperback ~ 336 pp. ~ $18.95
with 10% discount, $17.06 |
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Ages
14 and up
The Life of the Blessed
Emperor Constantine
From
306
to
337
AD
by Eusebius Pamphilus
Constantine the
Great is one of those rare historical figures who is nearly as
controversial today as he was in his own time. Lauded, both then and
now, as a military hero who ended the brutal persecutions of Christians
and as the first Roman emperor to himself embrace Christianity,
Constantine is just as often vilified as a destructive innovator, a
coddler of heretics, and a tyrannical hypocrite with the blood of his
own family on his hands.
The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine
was penned shortly after the emperor’s death in AD 337 by the great
Church historian Eusebius Pamphilus, bishop of Cæsarea. Though
criticized as mere panegyric lionizing Constantine’s virtues while
ignoring his flaws, Eusebius’s Life
is nonetheless the most substantial and detailed biography of the first
Christian emperor to come down to us from antiquity. The work is also
the sole source for several key episodes in Constantine’s
life—including the emperor’s famous vision of a cross in the sky
accompanied by the words, “Conquer by this.” More...
Paperback ~ 264 pp. ~ $19.95 with
20% discount, $15.96 |
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Ages
14 and up
The Life of Saint Simeon
Stylites
A Translation of the Syriac in
Bedjan's Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum
Translated with an introduction by
Rev. Frederick Lent
The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites
is an intriguing primary account of the prototypical pillar saint—the
first of those indefatigable holy athletes who took their stand atop a
high column. Of unknown authorship, this vita was originally written in
Syriac and was most likely penned shortly after Simeon’s death in AD
459.
Typical of hagiographic literature of the
time, Simeon’s biography is littered with tales of mystical events,
miraculous cures, piety rewarded, depravity punished, divine and
satanic interventions in the lives of men. But the vita also contains a wealth of
information about monastic and penitential practices and provides
dozens of vignettes chronicling daily Christian life and the many
hardships faced by ordinary citizens of the late Roman Empire in the
East. More...
Paperback ~ 172 pp. ~ $17.95 with
20% discount, $14.36 |
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Ages
14 and up
The Life of Saint
Augustine
A Translation of the Sancti Augustini Vita
by Possidius, Bishop of Calama
Translated with an introduction by
Herbert T. Weiskotten
Few figures from antiquity are as
well known to us
as Augustine of Hippo. Thanks to his Confessions,
we
know
a
great
deal
about
Augustine’s
life
prior
to
his
conversion
to
Christianity.
Yet,
without
this
little
biography
written
by
his
intimate
friend
Possidius,
bishop
of
Calama,
we
would
know
comparatively
little
about
Augustine’s
life
after
his baptism.
In straight-forward, unadorned prose,
Possidius shows Augustine as a powerful intellect, voluminous writer,
and compelling orator, willing and able to defend the Church against
all comers. But he
also presents an Augustine who humbly endured the everyday trials and
difficulties of life as a bishop in Roman Africa. He shows a man who
ate sparingly, worked tirelessly, despised gossip, shunned the
temptations of the flesh, and exercised prudence and frugality in the
financial stewardship of his see.
More than simply the biography of a great
saint, The Life of Saint Augustine
provides a tantalizing glimpse into life in late Roman Africa—a
prosperous society on the verge of destruction. More...
Paperback ~ 116 pp. ~ $16.95 with
20% discount, $13.56 |
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Ages
14 and up
The North American
Martyrs
A Series of 5 Devotional Booklets
Arx
Publishing is pleased to present a series of devotional booklets on the
lives and heroic deaths of the North American Martyrs. As the French
and English colonized North America in the 1600s, a group of brave
souls left the comfortable world they knew in order to propagate the
Catholic faith throughout the primeval wilderness of the New World.
Foremost among these missionary pioneers were the Jesuit “black robes”,
whose piety, patience, and practicality won thousands of devoted
converts among the native tribes. Under their spiritual direction the
Micmac, Hurons, Algonquins, and even the warlike Iroquois forged an
authentic American Catholicism, animated by an intense fervor and
heroic constancy seldom seen since the days of the Roman persecutions.
#1: The Life of St. Jean de Brébeuf
by Fr. Ragueneau, SJ
Paperback booklet ~ 32
pp. ~ ISBN: 1-889758-51-5 ~ $3.00
#2: The Captivity of St. Isaac Jogues
by Fr. Lalemant, SJ
Paperback booklet ~ 32
pp. ~ ISBN: 1-889758-52-3 ~ $3.00
#3: The Martyrdom of St. Charles Garnier, by
Fr.
Ragueneau,
SJ
Paperback booklet ~ 24
pp. ~ ISBN: 1-889758-53-1 ~ $3.00
#4: The Martyrdom of St. Gabriel Lalemant
by Fr. Ragueneau, SJ
Paperback booklet ~ 16
pp. ~ ISBN: 1-889758-54-X ~ $2.00
#5: The Iroquois Martyrs of St. Francis Xavier
du Sault by Fr. Cholenec, SJ
Paperback booklet ~ 27
pp. ~ ISBN: 1-889758-68-X ~ $3.00 |
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