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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.
Peter Julian Eymard
August
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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.
Visit
the Web site of the religious order he founded to learn more about
him
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