Saint: 1095 books

Awena Dano, jeune femme de 21 ans, se voit offrir malgré elle, en cadeau d'anniversaire, un voyage dans le nord des Highlands. À peine arrivée dans un vieux manoir lugubre, Awena fuit et se réfugie sur le haut d'une proche colline où trône un ancien cercle de menhirs. Tout bascule quand elle...

This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view--- and Jewish too perhaps---- of a man and times so familiar to us and yet which acquires another dimension as it is represented through another culture. There are eloquent accounts in this...

Confessions, by St. Augustine, is part of the *Barnes & Noble Classics *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features...

These thematic collections of spiritual teachings from the best Christian writers in history are sure to be popular with book study groups, Centering prayer gatherings, adult Christian formation, and for individual spiritual reading.

Faith, Hope, and Love is a compact treatise on Christian piety, written in response to a request by an otherwise unknown person, named Laurentius, shortly after the death of Saint Jerome in 420. It is intended as a model for Christian instruction or catechesis. As the title indicates, the work is...

the author is Saint Bonaventure, O.F.M., (Italian: San Bonaventura; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized...

L’histoire littéraire du XVIe siècle n’est pas une tâche facile. Cette bizarre et terrible époque, dédaignée par les deux grands siècles dont nous sortons, peu et mal connue, présente un si tumultueux conflit, une confusion si énergique et si riche, qu’il serait imprudent sans doute...

EXTRAIT: Les lecteurs de la Revue se souviennent peut-être d’un article de M. Claude Bernard [1], qui a paru ici même, et un l’illustre savant, en parlant du progrès des sciences physiologiques, exposait quelques-unes de ses idées sur les rapports...

These thematic collections of spiritual teachings from the best Christian writers in history are sure to be popular with book study groups, Centering prayer gatherings, adult Christian formation, and for individual spiritual reading.

Meet Sid Valentine. After losing his job, a disillusioned ex-cupid finds out that joining the dark forces is a more lucrative venture. It's his world now, not yours. And in his world, myth, fairy tales and reality collide. Pulp. Sex. Violence. Horror. Your life is just fiction.

In his Holy Rule, Saint Benedict arranged the Old Testament Psalms for his monks so that all 150 could be recited in one week. This became the Divine Office , or "Breviary," that priests and religious around the world have prayed daily for centuries. Around 1200 AD, those especially devoted to Our Lady...

True Devotion to Mary is a book by Saint Louis de Montfort on the Roman Catholic theme of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The book attracted attention in the 20th century when in an address to the Montfortian Fathers, Pope John Paul II said that reading this book had been a "decisive turning...

This inspiring book, reissued in a new translation for the modern reader, is considered to be Saint Alphonsus Liguori's best devotional work. Divided into seventeen small chapters, each preceded by prayers and intercessions, it offers practical prescriptions for living a holy life.

Available for the first time in English, the private reflections of the modern pope recently elevated to sainthood—deeply personal writings that reveal a spiritual leader who agonized over his service to God, continually questioning whether he was doing enough. As the head of the Roman Catholic...