Saints who spoke English
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0893100455
ISBN 13
9780893100452
Category
Catholic Saints
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Publication Year
1979
Publisher
Pages
187
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Description
To most of us, the very word saint suggests something or someone remote from human experience. "Of course, I'm no saint, but . . . ." is a commonly heard expression. Well, why not?
The Catholic Church has been "canonizing" saints for nearly 2,000 years; that is, it has officially declared certain persons to be saints. It does this, in its wisdom, to offer us models of alternative styles of the truly good Christian life. And there is no such thing as a typical saint; anyone can become one. The important thing is to get rid of that remote feeling.
For that reason, Leo Knowles, who has long been fascinated by the infinite variations in saintly behavior, has written Saints Who Spoke English. It is especially for those who think of saints as having lived a long time ago, in an alien culture, speaking a tongue we wouldn't understand.
Here is St. Thomas More, everybody's hero, whose words can so inspire us because we can really understand them. He held the highest office in England next to the King; he renounced all that, and his wealth and honors, to bear allegiance to the true Church of Christ. Here is St. Edmund Campion, the Jesuit "pimpernel," who long eluded capture until his apprehension and martyrdom. St. Margaret Clitherow, the brave wife of York, and those saints who "spoke American," St. Elizabeth Seton and St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, who seem even closer to our life and times.
Leo Knowles was born in Manchester, England, in 1935. He worked on various distinguished journals in Manchester and London, then joined the British Broadcasting Corporation, remaining there for ten years as a news editor and current affairs producer.
While there he began to write plays and dramatic features for radio and television, and in 1974 he resigned in order to devote full time to writing. His TV drama, The Last Victim, appeared in The Best Short Plays of 1974, an American anthology.
His Saints Who Changed Things (1977), published by Carillon, enjoyed a wide popularity with American readers, and he has regularly contributed to American periodicals, including Catholic Digest.
In another book, also published by Carillon (1978), Candidates for Sainthood, Knowles examines the lives of both seemingly ordinary and most extraordinary persons who someday may well be canonized: Tom Dooley, Vincent McNabb, Matt Talbot, Edith Stein.
Leo Knowles lives in Manchester with his wife, who is a nurse, and their three children. For recreation he walks, swims, goes to the theater, and watches soccer.
Taken from the inside flaps.
The Catholic Church has been "canonizing" saints for nearly 2,000 years; that is, it has officially declared certain persons to be saints. It does this, in its wisdom, to offer us models of alternative styles of the truly good Christian life. And there is no such thing as a typical saint; anyone can become one. The important thing is to get rid of that remote feeling.
For that reason, Leo Knowles, who has long been fascinated by the infinite variations in saintly behavior, has written Saints Who Spoke English. It is especially for those who think of saints as having lived a long time ago, in an alien culture, speaking a tongue we wouldn't understand.
Here is St. Thomas More, everybody's hero, whose words can so inspire us because we can really understand them. He held the highest office in England next to the King; he renounced all that, and his wealth and honors, to bear allegiance to the true Church of Christ. Here is St. Edmund Campion, the Jesuit "pimpernel," who long eluded capture until his apprehension and martyrdom. St. Margaret Clitherow, the brave wife of York, and those saints who "spoke American," St. Elizabeth Seton and St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, who seem even closer to our life and times.
Leo Knowles was born in Manchester, England, in 1935. He worked on various distinguished journals in Manchester and London, then joined the British Broadcasting Corporation, remaining there for ten years as a news editor and current affairs producer.
While there he began to write plays and dramatic features for radio and television, and in 1974 he resigned in order to devote full time to writing. His TV drama, The Last Victim, appeared in The Best Short Plays of 1974, an American anthology.
His Saints Who Changed Things (1977), published by Carillon, enjoyed a wide popularity with American readers, and he has regularly contributed to American periodicals, including Catholic Digest.
In another book, also published by Carillon (1978), Candidates for Sainthood, Knowles examines the lives of both seemingly ordinary and most extraordinary persons who someday may well be canonized: Tom Dooley, Vincent McNabb, Matt Talbot, Edith Stein.
Leo Knowles lives in Manchester with his wife, who is a nurse, and their three children. For recreation he walks, swims, goes to the theater, and watches soccer.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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