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Modern Saints

Author : Ann Ball
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781505102499

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Stories of 55 saints, beati, and holy people of the past 200 years, along with their pictures; most are actual photographs. Includes St. Gemma Galgani, St. Bernadette, St. Maria Goretti, St. John Neumann, Padre Pio, Edith Stein, St. Peter Julian Eymard, St. Frances Cabrini, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. John Bosco, St. Dominic Savio, and many, many more. Will bring hours and hours of pleasure and entertainment to the entire family.

Cox's Book of Modern Saints and Martyrs

Author : Caroline Cox
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826487882

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Cox's Book of Modern Saints and Martyrs by Caroline Cox Pdf

Stories from around the world, particularly from areas of Christian persecution or conflict zones. Today over 250 million Christians are suffering persecution, while tens of thousands are martyred every year. >

Modern Saints

Author : Ann Ball
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781505102505

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45 saints, beati, and other holy people of the past 200 years, and their pictures; most are actual photographs. Includes the Cure of Ars, St. Catherine Laboure, St. Therese the Little Flower, St. Pius X, Vens. Jacinta and Francisco Marto, Dom Columba Marmion, St. Elizabeth Seton, Pauline Jaricot, Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity, Sr. Josefa Menendez, St. Joseph Cafasso, Therese Neumann, and many more. Shows there are people living today who will one day be canonized Saints.

Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

Author : Erin Kathleen Rowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108421218

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Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism by Erin Kathleen Rowe Pdf

This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.

Medieval Saints and Modern Screens

Author : Alicia Spencer-Hall
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048532179

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Medieval Saints and Modern Screens by Alicia Spencer-Hall Pdf

This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liège'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liège, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes.

Santi

Author : Luca Dipierro,Frank Daniels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Compact discs
ISBN : 0979890802

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Santi by Luca Dipierro,Frank Daniels Pdf

Fiction. Anthology. Burning bushes, neon halos, preachers, sinners, false prophets, talking dogs, healing hands, living tattoos and much more is revealed in SANTI: LIVES OF MODERN SAINTS, an anthology of short stories by a cabal of today's most original up-and-coming American and Italian authors, taking traditional religious myths and flipping them on their heads. Featuring new fiction by Giovanni Arduino, Cristiana Astori, Grant Bailie, Alan Bissett, Valeria Francesca Brignani, Dan Chaon, N. Frank Daniels, Luca Dipierro, Greg Downs, Michael A. Fitzgerald, Timothy Gager, Davide Garbero, Danni Iosello, Noria Jablonski, Roy Kesey, Jon Konrath, David R. Matthews, Claudio Morandini, Giona A. Nazzaro, Erin O'Brien, James P. Othmer, Rob Roberge, John Sheppard, Giuseppe Signorin, Simone Tordi, Federico f. Zanatta. The Bible of contemporary fiction: displaying naked truths without regard to the consequences. Illustrated by Rachel Bradley. Including a CD with five stories with original soundtracks.

Saints

Author : Barbara Calamari,Sandra DiPasqua
Publisher : Avery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 0670038490

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Saints by Barbara Calamari,Sandra DiPasqua Pdf

This comprehensive collection of the most enduring and enigmatic saints brings them to life through iconography, art, and story. Each profile includes a biography with canonization, patronage, feast dates, and prayers to and about each saint in a beautiful full-color format.

Making Saints in Modern China

Author : David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190620905

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Making Saints in Modern China by David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe Pdf

"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure. This book offers a new perspective on the history of religion in modern and contemporary China by focusing on the profiles of these religious leaders from the early 20th century through the present. Edited by noted authorities in the field of Chinese religion, Making Saints in Modern China offers biographies of prominent Daoists and Buddhists, as well as of the charismatic leaders of redemptive societies and state managers of religious associations in the People's Republic. The focus of the volume is largely on figures in China proper, although some attention is accorded to those in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other areas of the Chinese diaspora. Each chapter offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of the way in which he or she became a "saint." The biographies illustrate how these leaders deployed and sometimes retooled traditional themes in hagiography and charismatic communication to attract followers and compete in the religious marketplace. Negotiation with often hostile authorities was also an important aspect of religious leadership, and many of the saints' stories reveal unexpected reserves of creativity and determination. The volume's contributors, from the United States, Canada, France, Italy, China, and Taiwan, provide cutting-edge scholarship. Taken together, these essays make the case that vital religious leadership and practice has existed and continues to exist in China despite the state's commitment to wholesale secularization.

Making Saints in Modern China

Author : David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe,Chi Che
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190494568

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Making Saints in Modern China by David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe,Chi Che Pdf

Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility.

Forgotten Saints

Author : Sahar Bazzaz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : France
ISBN : 0674035399

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Forgotten Saints by Sahar Bazzaz Pdf

In 1894 a Muslim mystic named Muḥammad al-Kattānī abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, he mobilized a Moroccan resistance against French colonization. This book narrates the story of al-Kattānī and his virtual disappearance from accounts of modern Moroccan history.

Apparitions of Modern Saints

Author : Patricia Treece
Publisher : Servant Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Apparitions
ISBN : 1569553033

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Apparitions of Modern Saints by Patricia Treece Pdf

An expert on saints presents accounts of purposeful after-death visits by saints, who bring gifts such as healing, encouragement, wisdom, and spiritual freedom. Treece puts their appearances in context by demonstrating that these types of visits have occurred from earliest times, not only in Christianity, but in Judaism and other world religions.

The Book of Saints

Author : Albert Truesdale
Publisher : Nazarene Publishing House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0834136252

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The Book of Saints: The Modern Era is a devotional gateway to the counsel and reflections of many of the modern era's most profound witnesses to Christ.

Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Alison Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135132316

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Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature by Alison Chapman Pdf

This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and to challenge early modern ideas of patronage -- not just patronage in the narrow sense of the immediate economic relations obtaining between client and sponsor, but also patronage as a society-wide system of obligation and reward that itself crystallized a whole culture’s assumptions about order and degree. The works studied in this book -- ranging from Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, written early in the 1590s, to Milton’s Masque Performed at Ludlow Castle, written in 1634 -- are patronage works, either aimed at a specific patron or showing a keen awareness of the larger patronage system. This volume challenges the idea that the early modern world had shrugged off its own medieval past, instead arguing that Protestant writers in the period were actively using the medieval Catholic ideal of the saint as a means to represent contemporary systems of hierarchy and dependence. Saints had been the ideal -- and idealized -- patrons of the medieval world and remained so for early modern English recusants. As a result, their legends and iconographies provided early modern Protestant authors with the perfect tool for thinking about the urgent and complex question of who owed allegiance to whom in a rapidly changing world.

Saintly Women

Author : Nancy Nienhuis,Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351183123

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Saintly Women by Nancy Nienhuis,Beverly Mayne Kienzle Pdf

This ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs serve to excuse battering and to work against survivors’ attempts to find safety. Theological interpretations of sacred texts have been used for centuries to justify or minimize violence against women. The authors recover historical and especially medieval narratives whose protagonists endure violence that is framed by religious texts or arguments. The medieval theological themes that redeem battering in saints’ lives—suffering, obedience, ownership and power—continue today in most religious traditions. This insightful book emphasizes Christian history and theology, but the authors signal contributions from interfaith studies to efforts against partner violence. Examining medieval attitudes and themes sharpens the readers’ understanding of contemporary violence against women. Analyzing both historical and contemporary narratives from a religious perspective grounds the unique approach of Nienhuis and Kienzle, one that forges a new path in grappling with partner violence. Medieval and contemporary narratives alike demonstrate that women in abusive relationships feel the burden of religious beliefs that enjoin wives to endure suffering and to maintain stable marriages. Religious leaders have reminded women of wives’ responsibility for obedience to husbands, even in the face of abuse. In some narratives, however, women create safe places for themselves. Moreover, some exemplary communities call upon religious belief to support their opposition to violence. Such models of historical resistance reveal precedents for response through intervention or protection.

Nothing Short of a Miracle

Author : Patricia Treece
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781933184586

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Nothing Short of a Miracle by Patricia Treece Pdf

God doesn't need humans to work miracles for Him, but as veteran Catholic author Patricia Treece shows, it certainly seems His good pleasure to perform great miracles by means of human prayers and human hands. For more than a quarter century, Treece, America's most experienced and revered saint-watcher, has gathered numerous fascinating reports of miraculous healings brought about in our lifetime. Among them is the complete 2005 cure of Sr. Marie Simon-Pierre's advanced Parkinson's disease after she appealed for healing to the just-deceased Pope John Paul II. After intense scrutiny, the Vatican declared her healing miraculous, leading to John Paul's beatification and canonization. Here, too, are tales of scores of lesser-known healings brought to light by Treece's own investigations into little-known official Vatican documents, as well as from her many interviews with living witnesses of miraculous healings, including several whose healings have been accepted by the Vatican as grounds for the canonization of their intercessors. You'll read vivid but sober accounts of the lives and of the miracles wrought by some of the greatest healers of all, with details of a host of authenticated healings by André Bessette, John Bosco, Frances Cabrini, Solanus Casey, John Paul II, Padre Pio, Elizabeth Seton, Francis Xavier Seelos, Fulton Sheen, Mother Teresa, and other good men and women blessed by God with remarkable healing charisms. The healings documented here are not hasty judgments made by gullible, overwrought believers; they are instantaneous, complete, and permanent cures for which scientific medicine still has no explanations cures that also meet the Vatican's stringent seven-part test of authenticity. When faced with a woman skeptical about whether she could be cured, the healer Solanus Casey is reported to have said, Don't you know that God can cure cancer just as easily as the common cold? Not only can God do this: These pages show that He is doing it ... so often and so obviously that even in our day miraculous healings are giving pause to hardened skeptics and bringing joy to the hearts of believers who rightly see in them overwhelming evidence of God's love for each of us. May they bring joy to your heart as well and renew the confidence in His love that God yearns for you to have!