Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints

by Margaret Bunson, Stephen Bunson, Matthew Bunson

Book Overview

From Aaron to ZygmuntAnd 10,000 in between - here are the "holy ones" of the Church Now updated to include canonizations approved by Pope Francis including St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII Whether... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879735880
• ISBN13: 9780879735883
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Length: 797 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Reference

This is one of those books that you keep in the library as the perfect reference. The curious minded reader can browse these pages for hours. As the title indicates it is an Encyclopedic work set up in alphabetical order by name. Most entries have biographical information with note of the feast day. The twelve Appendices are a great addition and sort the entries in a range of catagories from Popes, US Martyrs, Mystics, etc. There is a Glossary of terms and a Calendar of Feast Days as well as an Alphabetical Index. Text is broken with the occational black and white engraving. A very comprehensive and complete work on the saints both famous and obscure as well as significant beati.