Learn about the process of canonization in Making Saints by Kenneth Woodward, the religion editor of Newsweek. Click on the image above to order.

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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. Peter Julian Eymard

August 1


Peter Julian Eymard (died August 1, 1868, born at La Mure d'Isere, France, February 4, 1811) in 1856 founded the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1855 he founded a contemplative women's community, Servants of the Blessed Sacrament.

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