Saints K - O
Saints K - O
Kateri Tekakwitha $6.95 - 125 pages - Soft Cover |
Kateri
Tekakwitha reminds us of Joan of Arc. Both are innocent,
God-enthralled
women. Both are willing to suffer heroically in pursuit and fulfillment
of God’s plan for them. Kateri was the daughter of a great Mohawk chief, and an Algonquin Christian mother. Her parents died of small pox when the girl was four. She was raised by her uncle, the new chief, who wanted no part of the Christian faith. Kateri believed that the French missionary priest had brought to her village the message of the one true God. She was attracted to the Eucharistic Jesus and to the love of neighbor the blackrobes taught. She desired with all her heart to become a Christian. That desire led her down paths more treacherous than the densest of forest trails. Kateri was persecuted and ostracized for her refusal to conform to traditional Iroquois ways. Even so, she felt compelled to live out her short life totally dedicated to God through her vow of virginity. Kateri’s perseverance is an inspiration to Native North Americans to women, and to all people who want to understand the Indian culture of the time in which she lived. The story revolves around Kateri’s spiritual life and growth in holiness. As the events unfold, the author reveals the culture, history and archeology of the forest Indians. Kateri Tekakwitha is indeed the “most beautiful flower that bloomed among the Indians,” as the inscription on her tombstone reads. |
Saint Katherine Drexel $11.95 - 162 pages - Soft Cover |
At
an early
age, Katharine Drexel was drawn to prayer and felt a special
attraction
to St. Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi. Later, as most young debutants
were preparing for their introduction to America’s high society,
Katharine
visited Pope Leo XIII, begging him to send missionaries to help the
Native
Americans. Challenged by the Pope to become a missionary herself,
Katharine’s
generous heart was also moved by the deprivations and injustices
suffered
by many African Americans. In 1891, after much discernment and prayer,
she founded a new congregation in the Church – the Sisters of the
Blessed
Sacrament – to minister to the specific needs of Native and African
Americans. At her death in 1955, Mother Katharine left behind a true legacy of love – a host of dedicated sisters laboring in an impressive chain of schools, homes and services to provide education and assistance to African and Native Americans. Ellen Tarry, the author of this biography, is a graduate of one of these school and was privileged to have received her high school diploma from Mother Katharine herself. On October 1, 2000, Mother Katharine Drexel became the second native-born United States citizen to be declared a saint. “I have read much of Mother Katharine through the years, but nothing has transported me back to those days when she first became my heroine, except for this little gem of Ellen Tarry’s. - From the Foreword by John Cardinal O’Conner |
The Holy Man of Tours $15.00 - 213 pages - Soft Cover |
The life of Leo Dupont, besides being one of the finest biographies of a Saint the reader will likely ever encounter, is also the suspenseful story of the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and how it was established - first at Tours, France, and then worldwide, as authorized by Pope Leo XIII in 1885. However, before it was approved by the Church, Leo Dupont practiced this devotion privately in his drawing room, where a true likeness of Veronica's veil was perpetually venerated by a burning lamp, and before which he would pray for hours on end. Soon miracles became so numerous that Pope Pius IX declared Leo Dupont to be perhaps the greatest miracle-worker in Church history. People from all over Europe and around the world would write to Monsieur Dupont for a few ounces of this holy oil, often addressing him simply as "The Holy Man of Tours, Tours, France."The postmen at Tours always knew whom they meant. Whereas The Golden Arrow, The Autobiography and Revelations of Sr. Mary of St. Peter (1816-1848), contains the actual moving revelations of Our Lord about the powerful Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, The Holy Man of Tours is in reality the fascinating story of that great devotion, especially of the seemingly insurmountable difficulties encountered in having it officially recognized by the Church. In many respects The Holy Man of Tours in one of the most moving and best written Catholic book in print today - and is certainly on which will reward the reader far beyond what he might possibly anticipate. |
Preparation for $5.00 - 84 pages - Soft Cover |
St.
Louis
de Montfort tells us that "those who desire to take up this special
devotion" (Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary), "should spend at
least twelve days in emptying themselves of the spirit of the world,
which
is opposed to the spirit of Jesus. They should spend three weeks
umbuing themselves with the spirit of Jesus through the most Blessed
Virgin."
(T.D. No. 227) It is obvious that this total consecration, or perfect renewal of our baptismal vows with and through Mary, is not to be taken lightly. Pope John Paul II said that "Reading this book (St. Louis de Montfort's True Devotion to Mary) was to be a turning point in my life ... This Marian devotion ... has since remained a part of me. It is an integral part of my interior life and of my spiritual theology." In his Marian Year encyclical, Mother of the Redeemer, speaking of Marian Spirituality, the Holy Father singles out: "among the many witnesses of this spirituality, the figure of Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, who proposes consecration to Christ through the hands of Mary, as an effective means for Christians to live faithfully their baptismal commitments." (No. 48) This booklet is intended merely as a guide to help you in your immediate preparation before entering fully into this beautiful way of Marian Spirituality, in the footsteps of her Son, Jesus |
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St. Louis De Montfort $13.00 - 211 pages - Soft Cover |
“Well, what do
you think
of Fr. De Montfort?” asked the Bishop eagerly. “Is he preaching heresy?
Is he a tool of the Devil, as some people say? Or a madman, as others
think?” The city was in an uproar over Fr. Louis De Montfort, and Bishop de Champflour had sent 3 wise priests to investigate. “I’m especially interested in learning about the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary,” he told them. Yes, huge crowds of people were coming to Fr. De Montfort’s mission services, hundreds of souls had been converted. No one left his confessional unconsoled. But some people had their doubts about what Fr. De Montfort was preaching. What was all this talk of becoming a saint easily and quickly through the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary – by a holy “slavery” to Jesus in Mary? Now the 3 priests were back, and the Bishop awaited their report. What would they tell him about this unusual missionary priest? This book tells what the priest found out. It also tells about the trouble stirred up for Fr. De Montfort by the Calvinist, by the Jansenists, even by some Catholics who did not understand what True Devotion to Mary was all about. In short, here is a remarkable story of the priest who went about helping other become saints by showing them how to be “slaves” for Jesus through Mary |
The Life of $7.50 - 114 pages - Soft Cover |
Blessed Margaret (1287-1320) was born a hunchback, midget, blind, lame and ugly. When she was 6, her proud, noble parents walled her up beside a chapel. She could not get out, but could attend Mass and receive the Sacraments. After 14 years of imprisonment, her parents took her to a shrine to pray for a cure. When no cure was forthcoming, they abandoned her. She became a lay Dominican and spent the rest of her life in prayer and works of mercy. When she died at age 33, the townspeople thronged to her funeral and demanded that “the saint” be buried in a tomb inside the church. The priest protested, but when a crippled girl was miraculously cured at the funeral, the people had their way. Blessed Margaret’s story is one of the most moving we have ever read. Her body is still incorrupt. |
The autobiography of $7.50 - 141 pages - Soft Cover |
Written
under
holy obedience to her superiors, The Autobiography of St.
Margaret
Mary reveals the intimate spiritual life of the saint to whom
Our
Lord gave the famous revelations regarding the love of His Sacred
Heart.
Our Lord Himself taught St. Margaret Mary the ways of His divine love,
guiding her from her earliest childhood and making her realize the
sometimes
painful requirements of a close and personal relationship with the
all-pure
God. St. Margaret Mary often quotes the words of Our Lord to her,
showing, for example, how He cannot tolerate the slightest fault.
He revealed to her the absolute sanctity of His love, and urged her not
to resist His holy will in any way, but to comply with it fully and in
all things. Further, she shows that God gave her a supernatural
desire
for great and continual suffering - many readers will be astonished at
St. Margaret Mary's love of the Cross, a love which is certainly
incomprehensible
on the strictly natural or human plane. Her all-consuming love of
God compelled her to embrace whatever suffering she could find - or
even
invent. In sum, this little book is a powerful antidote to our natural tendency to reduce, in our own thinking, the Divine Majesty to strictly human dimensions. It is a most enlightening revelation on the true spiritual relationship between the all-holy God and His weak, sin-stained creatures. It is an accurate picture of the absolutely pure, all-consuming fire of the Divine Lover of Souls, which is in fact the essence of the Sacred Heart revelation and devotion. |
The Letters of $16.50 - 285 pages - Soft Cover |
These are
not chatty and trivial, but deadly serious writings on a host of
subjects
by a Saint whose ardor of expression has probably never been surpassed
in print! Our Lord told St. Margaret Mary that there were three hearts
in perfect harmony: His own, St. Claude de la Colombiere’s and that of
St. Margaret Mary herself (1647-1690), whom He chose to be the Apostle
of devotion to His Sacred Heart, a devotion which has shaped the
Church’s
piety for over three centuries. In these Letters St. Margaret Mary reveals the holy ardor of her own heart, which is almost unbelievable, especially when one realized that what she writes is literally true and no pious exaggeration. St. Margaret Mary provides a most perfect example of that mysterious, mystical connection between suffering and Divine Love, which all the Saints confirm. In fact, as Fr. Doyle explains in his excellent introduction, these are the keys to understanding St. Margaret Mary: She was driven by a burning thirst for the Cross, by a desire to be unknown and by an eagerness for pure love for totality in loving God. Her only happiness consisted in suffering for love of Him. She even wrote: “The love of my God is a pitiless tyrant who never says ‘Enough.’” In addition to revealing the fact of her own burning heart, Saint Margaret Mary also writes of souls she saw in Purgatory, of Our Lord’s wishes for the King of France, His promises to those who spread devotion to His Sacred Heart, the workings of Divine Justice and of Divine Love, reparation to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and how Our Lord deals with souls who give themselves to Him. Thus, The Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque is a treasury, which reveals the hidden depths of Christ’s love and His desire to enflame souls with the same Divine Love. This book contains the best and most powerful writings on the Sacred Heart devotion that we have ever seen. |
Blessed Marie of New France $9.00 - 152 pages - Soft Cover |
“It’s almost upon us!”
yelled a frantic
voice aboard the Saint Joseph, as the iceberg neared the ship. Holy Mary, pray for us! This book tells what
happened
next. It also tells about the Indian children, the savage Iroquois, and
the great fire-plus the codfish, the lice and the bear grease! |
St. Martin De Porres $12.50 - 254 pages - Soft Cover |
The appeal
of St. Martin de Porres is universal. Called an apostle of
charity,
patron of social justice, father of the sick and poor, and helper in
hopeless
cases, he is a powerful intercessor to those in need. The present biography was originally written at the request of the Postulation of the Dominican Order at Santa Sabina in Rome in 1957. Immediately after the canonization of St. Martin de Porres in 1963, the author incorporated new material into the biography, precisely in preparation for the English version. The Postulator General of the Dominican Order, Very Reverend Father Piccari, O.P., then wrote an official commendation of the English version of the biography and testified to its authenticity and status as an official biography of St. Martin de Porres. St. Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru, in 1579 shortly after the city was founded and was a contemporary in that “City of Saints” with St. Rose of Lima, St. Turibius (Archbishop of Peru), St. Francis Solanus and Bl. John Massias. Apprenticed as a barber-doctor at age 12, he entered the Dominican Order a few years later as a lay brother. Advancing quickly to the highest level of spirituality-it is believed by 20 years of age-he passed the remainder of his 60 years in complete dedication to his order and to the cause of the poor and sick of Lima. St. Martin de Porres is famous for his miracles, which include multiplying food to help feed the monks and the poor, who daily came to beg-healing the sick (even wounded and sick animals), visiting those in need through bilocation, and raising the dead. St. Martin did extreme penance, using the discipline on himself nightly, and spent long hours in ecstatic prayer. The life of St. Martin de Porres is explanation enough why he is so powerful with God and such a certain helper in time of need. |
The Martyrs of the Coliseum $21.00 - 447 pages - Soft Cover |
The Martyrs
of the Coliseum is a history of that famous arena in Rome, where
thousands
of early Christians met a cruel and bloody end, but much more than
that,
it is also the story of many well-known saints and heroes of Christ who
went willingly to their deaths in testimony of the truth of the
Catholic
faith. In fact, it reads like a veritable lives of the early saints and
martyrs. For here are recounted the passion of such notable martyrs as
St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Prisca, Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria, Pope
St.
Stephen, St. Vitus and companions, Sts. Abdon and Sennen (the Persian
kings),
St. Eleutherius (the young Bishop), St. Alexander, St. Hippolytus, St.
Marinus, St. Martina, and many others. Designed by a Christian and built in the first century by the labor of the Jews enslaved after the fall of Jerusalem, the renowned Roman Coliseum was the site not only of incredible cruelty but also of equally incredible miracles and conversions. So sacred in the earth of the Coliseum that on two occasions sainted popes - St. Gregory the Great and St. Pius V - gave pilgrims to Rome, as a memento of their visit, soil from the Coliseum wrapped in cloth, and to the wonder and amazement of the questioning pilgrims, both times the soil bled! “As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome will stand; and as long as Rome stands the Church will stand,” states a famous prophecy. Once a person reads the unbelievable testimony of Faith that was displayed in this arena and during the early Christian era in Rome, he will be readily able to understand how God might thus choose to signalize so epochal an event. |
Blessed Miguel Pro $6.00 - 119 pages - Soft Cover |
This is the
inspiring story of the famous Father Miguel Pro, who was executed in
Mexico
in 1927 for the “crime” of being a Catholic priest. This young Jesuit
spent
most of his short life in the priesthood dodging the Mexican police as
he ministered to the underground Church during the Mexican Revolution.
Fr. Pro’s quick wit and keen sense of humor were put to good use as he pedaled around Mexico City on his bicycle in various disguises en route to administering the Sacraments, giving spiritual talks or begging food and money for the poor. But behind the disguises beat the heart of a Saint-as the Mexican people testified by turning out in throngs to pay their last respects after his martyrdom. Fr. Pro had offered his life for the Catholic Faith, and his last words on this earth were: “Viva Cristo Rey!”- “Long live Christ the King!” Blessed Miguel Pro makes history come alive and highlights the dramatic conflict between the Church and her enemies that continues even to this day. Every member of the family will be delighted by this fast-paced, true story of a modern Catholic hero who proclaimed both in life and in death the reign of Christ the King. |
Saint Maximilian Kolbe $7.00 - 105 pages - Soft Cover |
St.
Maximilian
Kolbe is famous as the saint of Auschwitz who volunteered to die of
starvation and thirst in place of another prisoner. But his heroic
death
in 1941 in the worst of the Nazi concentration camps was only the
culmination
of an amazing life for St. Maximilian was fired by the supernatural
ideal
of conquering for Christ through Mary all souls in the entire world to
the end of time. Full of interesting stories, this little book describes his mischievous boyhood, his youthful prophetic vision of two crowns, his dream of martyrdom, his use of modern printing technology to further Our Lady’s work, his agreement with St. Therese the Little Flower, his “Cities of the Immaculata” (the one in Poland grew from 19 members to 762 and was the largest religious community in the world), his knowledge that he was fighting Satan, and his prison abuse for being a Catholic priest. Saint Maximilian Kolbe-Knight of the Immaculata shows the amazing deeds which Our Lady will accomplish through a person who consecrates himself to her. It is a book to inspire many more Catholics to consecrate themselves to Mary Immaculate-confident that through them too she will do great things! |
Saint Monica $7.00 - 106 pages - Soft Cover |
The life of Saint Monica is the classic story of a great
mother, for
how else
would the wayward young Augustine ever have become the great St.
Augustine
without his mother’s prayers and example? Monica is also a shining example for Catholic wives. As a young Catholic girl married to a pagan husband, she steadfastly practiced her Christian Faith; Monica’s constant charity finally resulted in the conversion of both her husband and her mother-in-law. Included in this book are the stories of young Monica’s painful lesson regarding wine, her estrangement from her son as he grew up and drifted into paganism, her anguish over Augustine’s renunciation of the Catholic Faith and embracing of Manichaeism, Augustine’s cruel deception of his mother, then later his dramatic struggle to break away from a pagan way of life-and finally, Monica’s great joy when her son was baptized at age 33. St. Monica – Model of Christian Mothers is a book to give renewed hope and confidence to mothers struggling to raise their children in unchristian surroundings. But much more than that, it is a tremendous true story of a great woman, of a great mother and of a great Saint that will inspire everyone plus, it is one of the greatest stories ever of prayer finally answered. |
