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The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded...
Uncommon Gratitude
Alleluia for All That Is
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams often says that, no matter what, the proper stance of the Christian in the world is one of gratitude. In this book, Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, and Archbishop Rowan Williams offer us a sweeping set of things and circumstances to be grateful for 'things for...
by Benjamin TuckerTanner
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Benjamin Tucker Tanner played an important role in the rise of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in the Southern States. In this volume he not only offers a history of the chruch and its progress, but also a theological defence against all criticism the church had received in the years...
A Passionate Pilgrim
A Biography of Bishop James A. Pike
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
James A. Pike, the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, was a man of many faces. To some he was an iconoclast, a man decades ahead of his time who modernized the Church and rendered it more progressive and open to inquiry. To others he was a heretic, who polarized and desecrated the...
Saints Behaving Badly
The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
From thieves and extortionists to mass murderers and warmongers, up-close and embarrassingly personal snapshots of those sanctified people with the most unsaintly pasts in the history of Christianity.
Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very...
by St. Jerome, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This edition of On Illustrious Men comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each chapter.St. Jerome (c. 347 30 September 420) (formerly Saint Hierom) was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of...
by Brian D Starr
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
If the Saint is a Major Saint and is found in the Saints In the Tree Genealogy File (Ancestry and Lineage is known) the Saint is included in the work. The Saint has either Ancestors and Descendents listed or Ancestors and the Branch in the Tree of Known Genealogy (Saints in the Tree file) is shown....
Un fransiscain chez les SS
Le témoignage véridique de Géréon Goldmann
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2014
́histoire époustouflante d ́un jeune séminariste enrôlé chez les SS, la sinistre légion nazie,à l ́aube de la Seconde guerre mondiale
Certaines vies attestent que la fiction peut parfois être largement dépassée par la réalité. La vie de Géréon Goldmann est de celles-là;. Tout...
by William Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The Gospel was first brought to the Teutonic conquerors of Britain by Roman missionaries, and was received by the kings of various kingdoms. From the first the Church that was planted here was national in character, and formed a basis for national union; and when that union was...
by Bob Lord, Penny Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Account of the life of Saint Padre Pio who bore the wounds of Christ for 50 years. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to San Giovanni Rotondo, where Padre Pio lived and died and gathered the information contained here about his life and legacy. This ebook is a complete history of his life from his birth to his death.
by Bob Lord, Penny Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Saint Faustina Kowalska is responsible for bringing the Divine Mercy devotion to the World. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to Poland and Lithuania to get the information on the life of Saint Faustina and the history of the Divine Mercy Devotion.
The Four Signs of A Dynamic Catholic
How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As human beings we are constantly engaging and disengaging in everything we do. We engage and disengage at work, in marriage, as parents, in our quest for health and well-being, in personal finances, environmentally, politically, and, of course, we engage or disengage spiritually. If you walk into...
Catholicism
A Journey to the Heart of the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“Catholicism takes a path less traveled in leading us to explore the faith through stories, biographies, and images.”—Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York
What is Catholicism? A 2,000-year-old living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
A Bible for everyone! The easy-to-read font, convenient six-by-nine-inch size, softcover design, and affordable cost make this complete Catholic Bible perfect for home, school, or parish. Informative footnotes, cross-references, and helpful background introductions for each book of the Bible are included.