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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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Damien de Veuster You can order this image by visiting Bridge Building Images A Belgian-born missionary to Hawaii, he was ordained in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1864. He volunteered to serve the abandoned leper colony of Molokai, wher ehe worked for 16 years as pastor, physician, undertaker and sheriff, founding two orphanages and constantly pressuring the Royal government to provide for the lepers. Protestant missionaries undertook a smear campaign against him, but many rose to his defense, including Robert Louis Stevenson. He contracted leprosy in 1884 and continued working among the lepers until his death in 1889.
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