The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary - Hardcover

St. Augustine's Abbey (Ramsgate, England)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826413781 ISBN 13: 9780826413789

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2002

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive dictionary of saints in any language for seventy years. The last edition of this book, the sixth, published in 1970, included very few entries for those recently beatified and canonized and almost none for those honored by Pope John Paul II. Unlike other books of saints which are selective--based on locale, gender, art-historical interest, or spiritual appeal--this one is rigorously comprehensive and historically objective. It includes entries for all those who have been formally canonized or beatified to date, or have had their local veneration approved by the church as a whole, or have been listed in the old Roman martyrology. It also includes the more prominent of those local saints who have been venerated in the distant past, before the process of canonization was formalized, who are no longer liturgically honored anywhere, but who feature in historical records.

About this title

About the Author

Dom Basil Watkins is based at St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, Kent, UK.

Review

"excellent source of biographical information on the saints" -- Catholic Library World, March 2003

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0826413781
• ISBN 13: 9780826413789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Watkins Basil Dom