Profiles in Holiness
Subtitle: Brief Biographies of Jesuit Saints
Publisher: Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, India
Published: September 1, 2005
Place of publication: P.B. 70, Anand  388001, Gujarat, India
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9788187886747
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; Saints & hagiography
Description: Profiles in Holiness, is a hallowed ‘gallery’ with pen-portraits of exemplary Jesuits from St Ignatius of Loyola the Founder of the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century to Saint José Rubio who was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 4 May 2003. Each ‘life’ portrays the human striving for perfection, for holiness/wholeness in life through ‘heroic’ or ‘ordinary’ means. Though characterized by the Jesuit charism of endeavouring ‘for the greater glory if God’, the book will inspire non-Jesuits as well, because these mini-biographies of 49 Saints and 147 Blessed display universal “holiness” – the human being empowered by God’s Grace. The book is arranged according to the respective feast-days of the Saints, and “is so structured that it can be used for introductions to liturgical celebrations, as a resource for community prayer, or for spiritual reading and personal reflection.”