The Catholic Church has tens of thousands of saints, blesseds, and venerables — some of whom have had their life stories told in movies and books. Here are several Catholic favorites to get to k ...

He was a vain soldier and courtier, recovering in his castle from a war injury, when he found himself with nothing to read but a book of lives of the saints. At first he found them boring ...

"If we let it grow, it can completely change our life." "Therefore, saints are not unreachable or distant heroes, but people like us," he said, "whose starting point is the same gift we have ...

In my south Louisiana Catholic childhood, youngsters were encouraged to read about the lives of the saints to learn how to be good. I still have on my living room shelf a weathered edition of ...

After dinner a few times per week, we open a book called “Lesser Feasts and Fasts” that recounts the lives of the saints and discuss the saint of the day. When important people are missing ...