Saints Are Not Sad: Short Biographies of Joyful Saints
by F. J. Sheed
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The only tragedy is not to be a saint, wrote the French novelist Leon Bloy. And St. Francis de Sales said that A sad saint would be a sorry saint. But what is a saint? One way to answer is to analyze sanctity, theologically and psychologically. Another way, which is the path Frank Sheed chose in creating this volume, is to show you a saint--or rather, since no two saints are alike--to show you a number of saints. In this book, you are shown forty saints.The saints Sheed chose for this show more collection are from various time periods: six before A.D. 500, seventeen from then to the Reformation, and seventeen from the Reformation to the middle of the twentieth century. Many are well known, like St. Anthony, Francis, Augustine, Patrick and Bernadette, while others are lesser known, for example, Columcille and Malachy.The same can be said for the various authors of these short biographies. Among them are the famous like Hilaire Belloc, Alban Goodier and G.K. Chesterton, as well as priests and laymen whose names may no longer be familiar but whose writing still brings to life men and women whose closeness to God gave them purpose, strength, and yes, joy. show lessTags
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Frank Sheed was one of the most distinguished Catholic writers and apologists of the twentieth century. Together with his wife, Maisic Ward, he founded the venerable Catholic publishing house Sheed and Ward in London. His many books include To Know Christ Jesus, A Map of Life, Theology and Sanity, Society and Sanity, and Saints Are Not Sad.
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- Original publication date
- 1949
- People/Characters
- Saint Paul; Saint Felicity; Saint Perpetua; Anthony the Great (Saint, 251? to 356); Augustine of Hippo (Saint, Doctor of the Church, 354 to 430); Saint Patrick (show all 40); Brendan the Navigator (Saint, 484 to 577?); Saint Columba; Saint Columbanus; Bede or The Venerable Bede (Saint, Doctor of the Church, 673-735); Boniface (Saint, 675? to 754); Edward the Confessor; Saint Malachy; Thomas Becket; Laurence O'Toole; Dominic de Guzman (Saint, 1170-1221); Francis of Assisi (Saint, Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, c.1181-1226); Anthony of Padua; Thomas Aquinas (Saint, Confessor, Doctor of the Church, 1225 to 1274); Margaret of Cortona (Saint, 1247 to 1297); Elizabeth of Portugal; Joan of Arc; Catherine of Genoa; John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester; Thomas More (Sir, Saint, 1478-1535); John of God; Ignatius of Loyola (Saint, 1491? to 1556); Francis Xavier; Teresa of Ávila (Saint, Teresa Sá | nchez de Cepeda Dá | vila y Ahumada, 1515 to 1582); St. John of the Cross (Saint, Doctor of the Church, b. Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, 1542-1591); Camillus of Lellis; Francis de Sales; Vincent de Paul; Peter Claver; Joseph of Cupertino; Benedict Joseph Labre; St. Jean-Marie Vianney; Bernadette Soubirous; John Bosco; Thérèse of Lisieux (Saint, The Little Flower, b. Marie Franç | oise-Thé | rè | se Martin, | 1873 to 1897)
- Epigraph
- A sad saint would be a sorry saint.
—St. Francis de Sales - First words
- When Milton wrote:
Avenge, O Lord, They slaughtered Saints,
he was not calling down a curse on the writers of saints' lives. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It is the same journey to the same City, but with a new map to travel by.
- Original language
- English
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 929 — History & geography Biographies, Genealogy, Healdry Genealogy, Flags, Heraldry, Civil Records
- LCC
- BX4655 .S52 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Catholic Church Biography and portraits Collective Saints and martyrs
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