Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman astonishing in her own age, whose book of apocalyptic visions, Scivias, would alone have been enough to ensure her lasting fame.In this classic and highly...

Slave, soldier, lover, hero, saint,-his life mirrored the cataclysmic world into which he was born. His memory will outlast the ages. Born of a noble Welsh family, he is violently torn from his home by Irish raiders at age sixteen and sold as a slave to a brutal wilderness king. Rescued by the king's druids from almost certain death, he learns the arts of healing and song, and the mystical ways of a secretive order whose teachings tantalize with...

A collection of brief profiles and pictures of nearly thirty saints, descriptions of different kinds of angels, profiles of three specific angels, and a calendar of feast days. What is a saint? -- Holy family -- Followers of Christ -- Gospel writers -- Martyrs -- Great thinkers and evangelists -- Peace and healing -- Angels -- Archangels.

Originally published in 1899, The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux unfolds the life story of Marie-Francoise-Therese Martin, a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun. The first section focuses primarily on her childhood, while the middle portion features a letter to Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart. The autobiography's third section focuses specifically on her religious life. After her death, Therese of Lisieux was recognized not only as a saint, but...