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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. Augustine August 28 IAugustine (died 430) was born in Tagaste in Roman Africa. After a dissolute early life, he was baptized at age 33 by St. Ambrose. Later he was elected bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa, combated various heretical sects and is most noted for his writings, including his Confessions and the City of God. More than 500 of his homilies still exist and he isconsidered a father of monastic life in the West, with his rule being ubserved by more than 150 different communities today.
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