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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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19: Ss. Isaac Jogues and John de Brébeuf Left to Right: Jean de Brébeuf, S.J. (left panel: with cross), Richard Eisenmann, S.J. (kneeling with Seal of Society of Jesus) Blessed Miguel Pro, S.J. (standing with hands outstretched), Amando Lopez, S.J. (kneeling wearing a stole), Isaac Jogues, S.J. (right panel: holding Chalice of Blood). French Jesuit missionaries to the Hurons and Iroquois of North America, Isaac was tomahawked to death by Iroquois on October 18, 1646 near Albany and John was savagely mutilated and slain March 16, 1649 near Georgian Bay. Other North American martyrs commemorated on October 19 are their companions, Anthony Daniel, Gabriel lalemant, Charles Garnier, Noel Chabanel and oblates René Goupil and Jean de la Lande. Miguel Pro was a Jesuit priest who ministered in secret during the anti-Catholic pogroms of the Mexican government. He was accused of plotting against the government and was executed by firing squad on November 23, 1927, at the age of 36, while proclaiming "¡Viva Cristo Rey!" (Long live Christ the King!).
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