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Isaac Jogues: Saint Among the Mohawks
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Now: $19.95Was: $21.95"I go, but I shall never come back again." These were Isaac Jogues' words on the eve of embarking for a second missionary attempt in America. Shortly afterward, a skull-splitting Mohawk tomahawk made him a martyr. Fresh from the elegant life of...Now: $19.95Was: $21.95 -
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Bakhita: From Slave to Saint
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Now: $16.95Was: $18.95When she was about nine years old, Josephine Bakhita was kidnapped near Darfur, Sudan, by Arab slave traders. For several years she was subjected to brutal and humiliating treatment until she was ransomed and taken to Venice, Italy, where she became a...Now: $16.95Was: $18.95 -
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Jérôme Lejeune: A Man of Science and Conscience
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Now: $17.95Was: $19.95The intelligence of one is a gift for all. Such is the case of Jérôme Lejeune, an extraordinary man who put his brilliance at the service of children with Down syndrome. A pioneer of modern genetics, Dr. Lejeune discovered the chromosomal...Now: $17.95Was: $19.95 -
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To Raise the Fallen: A Selection of War Letters, Prayers, & Spiritual Writings of Fr. Willie Doyle
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Now: $16.95Was: $18.95Irish military chaplain Fr. Willie Doyle, S.J., died in action during the Battle of Passchendaele on August 16, 1917, having been hit by a German shell while rushing to the aid of wounded soldiers trapped in No Man's Land. In To Raise the Fallen,...Now: $16.95Was: $18.95 -
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Catherine of Siena
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Now: $17.95Was: $19.95Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena is critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well known, and amazing fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, Undset based this...Now: $17.95Was: $19.95 -
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Charles de Foucauld, Second Edition
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Now: $17.95Was: $19.95This definitive biography by Jean-Jacques Antier, a renowned French author of more than 50 books, is the fruit of his exhaustive research on Foucauld's life, writings and correspondence. He was given access to the complete archive on the life of Foucauld...Now: $17.95Was: $19.95 -
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Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
Now: $16.95Was: $18.95Discover the five great loves of St. John Paul II through remarkable unpublished stories on him from bishops, priests, students, Swiss Guards, and others. Mining through a mountain of papal resources, Jason Evert has uncovered these many gems, offering a...Now: $16.95Was: $18.95 -
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Too Small a World: The Life of Mother Frances Cabrini
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Now: $16.95Was: $18.95"The world is too small," Saint Frances Cabrini (1850–1917) once declared. "I would like to embrace it all, to reach every corner." This compelling, authoritative biography chronicles the astounding life of a petite Italian-born religious sister...Now: $16.95Was: $18.95 -
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Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation
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$18.95Now: $17.95Was: $19.95Saint John of the Cross is the Church's premier teacher on contemplative prayer. Catholic tradition even calls him the Mystical Doctor. The sixteenth-century Carmelite priest not only wrote four massive treatises on the spiritual life, along with some of...$18.95Now: $17.95Was: $19.95 -
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Joan of Arc (Book)
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Now: $16.95Was: $18.95Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival...Now: $16.95Was: $18.95 -
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The Shadow of His Wings: The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldmann
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Now: $16.95Was: $18.95Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann...Now: $16.95Was: $18.95