Christianity - Biographies
The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth
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M. S. Pine
This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco …
Жития Святых, т. 06 - февруарий (Zhitiia Sviatykh, v. 06 - February)
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Saint Dimitry Of Rostov
Жития и похвалы святых подобятся светлостию звездам: якоже бо звезды положением на небеси утвержденны суть, всю же поднебесную просвещают, т…
The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers (Book 3) (The Rule of Pachomius at …
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Palladius
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…
A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
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Elisabeth G. Stryker
This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…
A Child's Life of St. Joan of Arc
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Mary E. Mannix
A biography of Saint Joan of Arc, geared towards children, but also can easily be enjoyed by adults.
Life of Saint Gerard Majella
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Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips
Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and hu…
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (January-March)
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John Gilmary Shea
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…
The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers (Book 4) (The Histories of the Monk…
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Palladius
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…
An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars in the Li…
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John Newton
John Newton, best known for his hymn "Amazing Grace", for his former life as a slave trader and as eventual opponent of the slave …
Phillips Brooks
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Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …
Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch
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Richard Raby
Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins
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W. L. Hunter
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …
Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences
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William S. Nelson
William S. Nelson, D.D., was appointed as a missionary to Syria by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1888. I…
A Book of English Martyrs
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E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in…
Brother Francis
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Eileen Douglas
Or, Less than the LeastThe following pages have been written by my request with a view to making the Soldiers of The Salvation Army somewhat…
St. Joseph of Copertino
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Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchitranslated Byrev. Francis S. Laing and Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchitranslated By Rev. Francis S. Laing
Joseph of Copertino (1603 – 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. He was said to …
Saint Augustin (Saint Augustine)
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Louis Bertrand
What, indeed, is more romantic than this wandering life of rhetorician and student that the youthful Augustin led, from Thagaste to Carthage…
Ponnamal, Her Story
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2
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John Tulloch
In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…
Hildebrand and his Times
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William Richard Ward Stephens
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…