Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words

by Ann Ball

Book Overview

They come from every walk of life, every corner of the globe. They are young, old, scholarly, uneducated, average, charming, solemn, religious, lay, married, single. They have little in common except... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879734094
• ISBN13: 9780879734091
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 12.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An inspiration for all

Ms. Ball has written a great work detailing real life stories of people who gave their minds, bodies, and souls to a cause. This is a work that will inspire all people, Catholic and otherwise, who dedicate their lives to an ideal. I was especially pleased that she reserved a chapter for the inspirational life of Rogelio Gonzalez Corzo, code-named "Francisco," a young leader of the anti-Communist/anti-Castro underground in Cuba. This deeply religious man, an agricultural engineer only in his late twenties, a Catholic school graduate, and a leader of the Agupacion Catolica Universitaria, bravely took on the puppets of the Soviet Empire in his country. He never doubted his actions, and in his famous letter to his family just before hsi execution, he wrote, "Death is already knocking at my door, but as all my companions I have great peace of mind, because cost what it may it will show me the way to heaven and eternal happiness." Ms. Ball is to be highly commended for her work. The others featured in the book, from a wide range of backgrounds and nations, were extrememly well selected. Not only does her choice of modern saints make the book attractive and inclusive, but truly speak to the transnational connection of Roman Cathilics around the world. A great book.

Saints Alive!

The saints are human beings just like us, but formerly hagiographers tended to make them unreal. Ann Ball has shown a marvelous talent to bring them within our reach. They had problems and difficulties like the rest of us, but with God's help they revealed a true heroism that inspires us toward goodness.