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Learn about the process of canonization in Making Saints by Kenneth Woodward, the religion editor of Newsweek. Click on the image above to order.
Read a collection of essays offering new insights into 17 saints in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints, edited by Paul Elie. Click on the image above to order.
Heroic virtue is not the exclusive domain of the past. Red about modern-day witnesses to the faith in Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century by Robert Royal. Click on the image above to order.
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St.
Ambrose of Milan You
can order this image by visiting December 7 Ambrose died on Holy Saturday, 397. He was born in Trier of noble parents and classically educated. Chile a catechumen, he was chosen by popular acclamation as bishop of Milan. His allegorical explanations and speaking skills made him a great preacher. He was a defender of orthodoxy against Arianism, a heresy which denied the divinity of Christ. He baptized St. Augustine and with Jerome, Augustine and Gregory I is one fo the four great doctors of the Western (Latin) Church.
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