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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.
Martin and the Beggar image
©1999 by the National Gallery
of Art November 11 Martin was born in 397 in present-day Hungary. He was a soldier who turned Christian at the age of 18. He founded the first moanstery in the West and later became bishop of Tours in France. he is the first non-martyr to have an annual feast in the Western Church. The depcition of St. Martin above is from a legend associated with his life: upon meeting a beggar in need of clothing on the road, Martin took his sword and cut his own cloak in two, giving half to the beggar, who then was transformed before his eyes into Christ.
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