num_pages: 448
description: Ann Ball’s book is a smorgasbord of biographical portraits of saints, blesseds, venerables, servants of God and those-in the very early stages-on the path to sainthood. If Catholic readers are familiar with the works of Joan Carroll Cruz, they will find this work of Ann Ball’s not just stimulating and inspiring but also very informative. Maintaining the Catholic ideal in such a secularized and indifferent world can be quite laborious, to say the least, but the heroic individuals, as profiled in Ball’s excellent book, show that it is not impossible. The lives, as presented here, speak of ordinary people who were possessors of a universal faith, yet, who lived that Catholic faith in a vibrant, intellectual, proactive and supernatural way; they were career oriented, family oriented, and above all else, faith oriented. Included in this work of assorted biographies are the lives of two medical doctors-see Dr. Agnes McLaren who was the leading inspiration behind the Medical Mission Sisters, founded by Dr. Anna Maria Dengel and Saint Dr. Joseph Moscati, the holy doctor of Naples whose life was one of unlimited charity, Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Catholic Church, Saint Clelia Barbieri, who, at age 21, founded the Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows, the youngest founder of a religious order in the Church’s history
language: English
title: Faces of Holiness II: Modern Saints in Photos and Words
titlecomplete: Faces of Holiness II: Modern Saints in Photos and Words
genres: Catholic, Biography, Religion
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Our Sunday Visitor