Schroedel - The Everything Saints Book: the Inspiring Lives of Martyrs and Miracle Workers Throughout History

2ND EDITION

Dear Reader,

Before I began this project, I was more familiar with the plaster version of some of these lives. I imagined these invincible figures sleeping half a second a night, munching a single locust for dinner, and nursing lepers to health, all the while offering unceasing praise to God.

As I dove headlong into the research and writing of this book, I discovered far more expansive, textured, and human saints than I anticipated. Some of the saints made me laugh, some made me cr y all of them me hunger to learn more.

I explored questions such as How did saints respond to the Holocaust?(see Chapter 15) and How did the saints navigate relationships? Chapter 7), as well as What compelled some of the saints to move the deser t or to devote their lives to caring for the poor? (see Chapter and Chapter 12).

Not only did I find answers to some of my questions, but I found people lurking behind them. Hopefully, in The EverythingSaints 2nd Edition, you'll find some bread for your own journey. It is my you'll also find a little bit of yourself, tucked into these very human who never stopped aching toward eternity.

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The inspiring lives of martyrs and miracle workers throughout history

Jenny Schroedel

Adams Media

Avon, Massachusetts

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