Author: Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
Keywords: saints, men, devil, worshippers, con, crooks, behaving, badly, cutthroats, trollops
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-09-19
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0385517203
ISBN-13: 9780385517201

Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on the road to sainthood.In nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings about the lives of the saints, authors tended to go out of their way to sanitize their stories, often glossing over the more embarrassing cases with phrases such as, “he/she was once a great sinner.” In the early centuries of the Church

Author: Francis Bond
Publisher: Gregg Press
Keywords: saints, ecclesiastical, symbolism, emblems, churches, english, amp, patron, dedications
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1408601613
ISBN-13: 9781408601617

Dedications Patron Saints of English Churches ECCLESIASTICAL SYMBOLISM SAINTS AND THEIR EMBLEMS -- PREFACE THIS book should be pleasant to read, for it has been pleasant to write. It grew out of a perusal of Miss Arnold-Forsters Stzlciies in Crzucr De

Authors:Thomas F. X. Noble, Thomas Head,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: saints, middle, ages, antiquity, lives, christ, soldiers
Number of Pages: 383
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0271013451
ISBN-13: 9780271013459

To understand European culture and society in the Middle ages it is essential to understand the role of Christianity. And there is no better way to understand that role than to study that religion’s greatest human heroes, the saints. For if medieval Christians regarded God as their king, then the saints were the Christian nobility, human members of the divine court. The purpose of Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages is to present some of the most significant records of the lives of those people considered to be saints. In explo

Authors:Fernando Lanzi, Gioia Lanzi,
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Keywords: saints, images, popular, recognizing, symbols, art
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2004-09
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0814629709
ISBN-13: 9780814629703

Images that tell the story of salvation illustrate saints in various scenes. They are often depicted by an emblem or icon. It used to be that we knew enough about the saints to recognize them in images or artworks without much trouble, but it is becoming a struggle. Saints and Their Symbols is a solution. It is a guide for recognizing and understanding the saints. This text explains such things as why so many of the saints appear in images with Jesus and the Virgin Mary, yet remain unnamed, which symbols are associated with each saint, and what their roles were in Christian salvation. With ful

Author:
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Keywords: saints, proper, common, year, seasons, lectionary, weekday, weekdays
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2001-11
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 156854443X
ISBN-13: 9781568544434

Author: Alice-Mary Talbot
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Keywords: byzantine, lives, translation, saints, english, eight, defenders, images
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0884022595
ISBN-13: 9780884022596

The seven vitae feature holy men and women who opposed imperial edicts and suffered for their defense of images, from the nun Theodosia whose efforts to save the icon of Christ Chalkites made her the first iconodule martyr, to Symeon of Lesbos, the pillar saint whose column was attacked by religious fanatics. Life of St. Theodosia of Constantinople Life of St. Stephen the Younger Life of St. Anthousa of Mantineon Life of St. Anthousa, Daughter of Constantine V Life of the Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople Life of Sts. David, Symeon, and George of Lesbos Life of St. Ioannikios

Authors:Paul Burns, Paul Burns,
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Keywords: saints, lives, butler, january
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0814623778
ISBN-13: 9780814623770