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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Bl. Marie-Rose Durocher
A window in St. Mary's Cathedral, Portland, Ore
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October 6

Marie-Rose died in 1849 at the age of 38. She was born in Québec, and began the first Canadian parish sodality for young women. She founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary for Christian education.

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