While the story of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in 1858 are very well known, relatively few people are familiar with the saint's own spiritual insights and profound holiness.

 

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During these trying days, saints are not only needed, they are necessary. In this little book, the great Archbishop Sheen explores the spirituality of the Little Flower, giving us lessons and guidance for our own journey to Heaven.

 

A Life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous in Her Own Words

By Rene Laurentin

Father Rene Laurentin, one of the preeminent Marian theologians of our time, has conducted research over a twenty-year time span on the apparitions at Lourdes.

 

Forgotten Priests in a Nazi Hellhole

Dachau concentration camp held the largest number of Catholic priests—more than 2400—in the Nazi camp system.

For every half-dozen heroes antiquity could muster, Christendom produced thousands; and often from the strangest holes and corners. Instead of drying up the spirit of adventure, the Fire of Pentecost kindled it anew and made it burn with an unquenchable flame.

In Celebration of the Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Authorized by the Missionaries of Charity

Written by two people who knew Mother Teresa well—Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C. and Sr.

Yes, Francis wore sandals and preached to the birds, but these pages take you beyond the nature-lover of popular myth to the real St. Francis of Assisi, model of holiness and Christian courage.

Mexico, December 9, 1531. Ten years after the Spaniards conquered this land, on a hill on the outskirts of the capital, something inconceivable happens to the Amerindian Juan Diego. At dawn a heavenly figure comes to meet him, revealing herself as "Mary, mother of all men.

 

Chesterton's Aquinas is a man of mystery. Born into a noble family, Thomas chose the life of a mendicant friar. Lumbering and shy - his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox" - he led a revolution in Christian thought.

 

Using extensive excerpts from the writings of St. Augustine, notably from his Confessions, Giovanni Falbo sheds new light on Monica’s patience, sweetness, and unwavering determination.

'Everyone who thinks Vianney is already well known will find not simply new information, but what has new meaning for each discoverer. That meaning may well differ for each reader. The descriptions of the Cure's encounters with Satan and 'his lesser angels' and of the hours in the confessional were my own personal crucial rediscoveries.