Saints: Who They Are and How They Help You

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For all of the times when you wish to have someone to call on — for help, inspiration, or celebration — this authoritative, readable, and entertaining book will tell you which saint you’ll be able to invoke for the occasion. Whether you’re on the lookout for love, hoping for success at work, or needing to recuperate soon, Saints permit you to uncover the answer to your prayers. The perfect gift book for anyone interested in history or legend, religion or selfhelp, this unique reference book of more than 150 saints is the first to group them by their patronages and specialties and to illustrate their relevance to the modern world. Saints contains a wealth of invaluable information about the lives of early and recent saints and answers many questions, including: Why is Saint Christopher invoked by travelers? Why is Saint Elmo’s fire so called? And why is Saint Jude the patron saint of lost causes? From the wealth of artistic material that saints have inspired all over the ages in painting, stained glass, and photography, more than 170 beautiful full-color and black-and-white photographs have been chosen to illustrate this gloriously rich celebration of saints. With special spreads focusing on the best-known and most intriguing saints, shrines and pilgrimage sites shown in their modern context, a calendar of feast days, an illustrated index of saints, and an alphabetical list of patronages and specialties, this comprehensive survey will be sure you intrigue, enlighten, and delight all who sense a saintly presence in

Author	Elizabeth Hallam

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