Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.0922415
EAN num: 9780517368336
ISBN number: 0517368331
Label: Gramercy
Manufacturer: Gramercy
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: January 15, 2002
Publishing house: Gramercy
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Sale Popularity Level: 502833
Studio: Gramercy
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The trials and successes of the twelve Irish saints including Ireland's Patron Saint Patrick, Saint Brigid, who founded Ireland's very first community of sisters, and many others who were either canonized or saintly laypersons. A classic volume providing insight into the facts and legends of these remarkable people.
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While not of Irish Ancestry, I thoroughly enjoyed this book on Irish saints and saintly people. Robert Reilly is an excellent story teller of these historical figures. I have read several books of St. Brendan, possibly the very first European person to locate America and to leave a report about it which was able to influence Christopher Columbus into deciding to sail west to find it again. This is the best and most factual, or believable of the several accounts that I have read about him
But the emphasis of all of these stories is on the love of these saints for Jesus and what they did as a result of this love. He closes the book with a prayer about which he says, "Since saintly lives are calculated to inspire us, a fitting close might be a 'Prayer to the Saints of Ireland' which I very first learned from an Irish missal as a prisoner of war in Germany." I think this says a lot about why Robert strived so hard, and I believe succeeded, in writing a wonderful book about these saintly people.
The saints that Robert Reilly has discussed in this book are:
Saint Patrick
Saint Brigid
Saint Brendan
Saint Columcille
Saint Columban
Saint Malachy
Saint Laurence O'Toole
Saint Oliver Plunkett
Mother Catherine McAuley
Father Theolbald Mathew
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