OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE SAINTS by David Farmer ($15.95)*
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This fully-updated fifth edition features concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints from the famous and obscure, the rich and poor, the academic and the uneducated. Fully updated and revised with over 100 new saints including the Martyrs of Korea, Mexico, and Vietnam, as well as the recently canonized such as Edith Stein, Padre Pio, and Josemaria Escriva. The standard one-volume reference work in the field, this dictionary will delight both specialists and general readers. This edition includes a new appendix on pilgrimage sights in Europe.
Reviews
Review from previous edition: "this delightful array of the good and the incredible is the sort of thing that gives hagiography a good name"--The Times
"Even those who do not believe in the saints...will be able to enjoy and to profit from this splendid book"--The Economist
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About the Author
David Farmer, formerly Reader in History at Reading University, is the author or editor of nine books and is a renowned expert on Saints.
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