All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time - Softcover

Ellsberg, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824516796 ISBN 13: 9780824516796

Publisher: Crossroad, 1997

Synopsis

This praised and best-selling daily reader presents short, comprehensive biographies of 365 saints and spiritual masters from Christianity and other faith traditions, including Mary Magdalene, Therese of Lisieux, Thomas Aquinas, Mother Teresa, Moses, Martin Luther, and Gandhi.

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From the Publisher

A national bestseller, this comprehensive and inspiring treasury combines traditional saints with other spiritual giants whose lives speak to the meaning of holiness for our time.

From Library Journal

Saints have typically been figures from the distant past, canonized for miraculous lives of perfection and self-denial. Orbis editor-in-chief Ellsberg here redefines this stereotype in this diverse and substantial compendium of the lives of men and women, ancient and contemporary, who gave themselves completely to their vocations. Well-known saints, apostles, and martyrs take their place beside lesser-known figures (the woman with a flow of blood who touched Jesus' hem), theologians and philosophers (e.g., Martin Buber, Simone Weil, Kierkegaard), artists (Van Gogh, Mozart, J.S. Bach), literary figures (Dante, Tolstoy), social reformers (Gandhi, Schweitzer), and numerous others who do not fit into neat categories. A different figure is introduced for each day of the year to coincide with feast days or birth/death dates, and helpful biographical sources are provided.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Crossroad
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0824516796
• ISBN 13: 9780824516796
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 608