Lives of the Saints You Should Know

by Matthew Bunson, Charles Joseph McFadden, Margaret Bunson

Men and women who have done the hardest thing of all--lived lives of virtue so heroically that their deeds will be honored as long as there's Church. Let these superheoes and superheroines show you how exciting a life of Faith can be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879737530
• ISBN13: 9780879737535
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Recommended for children and teenagers

I bought this book because I was looking for something to tell me how some Saints lived their lives - something inspirational. This it did, in it's way. It provides a brief, but personal, summary of the lives of 21 famous and not-so-famous saints. However, it appears to have been written with a children to teenage audience in mind, and so was a bit simplistic for me, as an adult, in places. By the same token, for me, as a non-Catholic, the book was easy to understand and provided useful and thought-provoking insights into sainthood and Catholic beliefs. I would recommend this book mainly to an early-teen audience, but it can also provide a good introduction to sainthood and Catholic beliefs to people of all ages and religious persuasions.