Saints

From the book "The Saints: A Concise Biographical Dictionary."

Profile of the patron saint of aviators. Illustrated.

Illustrated profile.

Illustrated profile.

Her life story, for children.

Brief biography.

Pious account of the life of the patroness of sickness.

Biography.

Illustrated profile, with links.

Messages from Our Lady, articles of interest and music online.

Her life story. Suitable for children.

Short hagiography of the foundress of the Contemplatives of the Good Shepherd.

Illustrated profile.

Illustrated profile.

Fairly long biographical essay.

Illustrated profile of this 20th-century saint.

Very brief paragraph.

Biographical portrait by Peter Ambrosie.

Short biography, suitable for children.

Illustrated profile.

Baptismal name: Peter Kanis. Also dubbed "the Hammer of Protestantism" and the "Second Apostle of Germany." Illustrated profile, with an excerpt from the saint's writings.

Biography of St. Peter Claver, by Arnold Lunn.

Profile of the "Slave of the Blacks." Illustrated, with links, and a reading from one of the saint's letters.

Life of this saint, suited to children.

Images, writings by witnesses. At padrepio.net.

A personal remembrance of Padre Pio, by Francesco Raimond.

On Padre Pio's beatification process, by Andrea Monda.

Long biographical essay.

Brief biography.

Life of the patroness of Latin America and the Philippines, suitable for children.

Article from the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

Profile of the English martyr.

Profile of Bl. Thomas Sherwood. With links.

Short biographical profile, at Catholic Online.

Illustrated profile.

With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.

All of Aquinas's works available online in Latin. Site also has bibliographies, early sources for the saint's life.

Pious hagiography, Feeneyite perspective: "As in our day, so then the enemies of our Lord and our Lady were the heretics on the outside and the liberals within."

Contends that all Westerners live in the shadow of Aquinas's philosophical achievements.

Full text of book online in HTML. "A popular sketch of a great historical character who ought to be more popular."

By William Roper, More's son-in-law. 117K.

Hagiography of the French missionary priest and martyr.

Illustrated booklet by Diego R. Yuki, Director of the 26 Martyrs' Museum. Account of the martyrdom, profiles of each of the martyrs, Pope John Paul II's speech at the monument to the martyrs in Nagasaki.

Paragraph about the Apostle of Holstein.

Hagiography.

Much of this article in the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge is devoted to biographical information on Abbot William and the monastic reforms he introduced. Includes bibliography. Requires ability to view PNG files.

Profile.

Profile of the beatus.

Short biography, edited from Richard John King's "Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Northern Division."

Her life story. Suitable for children.