The book of saints
Subtitle: a comprehensive biographical dictionary
By: edited by Dom Basil Watkins, OSB on behalf of the Benedictine monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate.
Contributors: Watkins, Basil.; St. Augustine's Abbey (Ramsgate, England)
Edition: 7th ed, entirely rev. and reset.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
Subjects: Christian saints -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Biography; Dictionaries.
Description: "Names of over 10,000 saints, including all modern ones, appear in this new edition. Entries are arranged in alphabetical order of name and give significant information about lives and achievements. Details are given of variations in names and also of associated emblems." "The illustrations have been chosen as depictions of Saints as recognizable individuals, either through portrait likenesses or photographs or as a result of being accompanied by traditional attributes of identity. The book includes a bibliography, glossary and lists of national martyrs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [609]).