Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise Edition, Revised and Updated

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Butler's great work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints ("Butler's Lives"), the result of thirty years study, was first published in four volumes in London, 1756–1759. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. J., and Donald Attwater to retain the charms of Butler's original prose style, this work of devotion and scholarship offers truths central to Christianity and underlying themes of Christian love. Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.

Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Many saints, indeed some very well known and popular ones, took their first steps toward a life of heroic virtue by reading or hearing the lives of other saints who went before. According to Charles Knight, the 1847 edition published in twelve volumes is considered the best and most complete.A compilation and condensation of the full work of Butler and his lives of the saints of the Catholic Church.

Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s he was a frequent contributor to the Catholic press in both Britain and America and a prolific author, translator and editor of books on Christian themes. The underlying theme is that of Christian love, a love willing to undergo great sacrifices for the sake of God and neighbor. Butler's distinctive contribution to stories about saints was to turn attention away from the superhuman, miraculous themes that are prevalent in earlier works. PRIDE/stinking pride who puts itself above the Creator and says "i will not kneel for baby Jesus asleep in the hay of a manger.

The twentieth century in particular has been noted as the century of martrys, many of which are featured prominently in this supplement to the new full edition of Butler’s Lives of the Saints, a continuation of the tradition of one of the most well-known and relied-upon reference works of all time. Blesseds appearing in previous volumes who have since been canonized have had their information updated and expanded. Parishes, schools, and libraries will find Butler's Lives of the Saints an invaluable reference work. A Benedictine Monk In 2007, Our Lord and Our Lady began to speak to the heart of a monk in the silence of adoration. For those who value freedom and science as well as their Christian faith, this edition is a valuable contribution.

I have been reading these 4 books daily for about 30 years and have learned a tremendous amount of history of my Catholic faith. Father Butler's Lives of the Saints is an amazing book of devotion, arranged to follow the Catholic Church's calendar of feast days, and so is relevant every day of the year. Butler's daily readings from the lives and works of the saints offer readers of all backgrounds the opportunity to engage directly with these great figures. I enjoyed reading and learning about the daily saints, Doctors, and martyrs of the Church in concise, well-written, prose.

It is an older book, though, so sometimes the language used was a bit different than what I am used to, and it is also old enough that some saints' feast days have been moved or other newer saints have superseded the older saints.

I am able to highlight and make notes on those passages that speak to my soul an change highlights and add to current notes or create new ones as read about that life a year later. In the original book, the footnotes were printed in such a small, closely-set typeface, that they were almost unreadable. Arranged day by day, with cross-indexing for easy reference, the text corresponds to the months of the year and contains entries on saints with feast days in that month.The index offers the list of saints from the complete edition, and includes all new canonizations and new dates, making it eh most up-to-date listing of saints available. Ideal for a daily meditation; each Saint’s life is followed by a “lesson” from the life to help us apply the virtues of the Saint to ourselves. He also prepared material for Richard Challoner’s Memoirs of Missionary Priests, a work on the martyrs of the reign of Elizabeth. This supplemental volume is highly recommended to those persons and libraries that already have the new edition of Butler's Lives.