Arranged according to the order of saints' feast days, these fascinating stories are now combined into one volume. This edition also features an introduction by Eamon Duffy contextualizing the work.

Self-consciously perverse, this collection will fascinate anyone interested in saints, mysticism, philosophy, the history of Christianity, or the ultimate strangeness of the sacred.

Augustine's Confessions has been much translated: but it is no exaggeration to say that Sister Maria Boulding's version is of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market.

Augustine of Hippo's 'Confessions' recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers.

" And it is of this Lucanus that Taylor Caldwell tells here in one of the most stirring stories ever lived or written.

These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa.

The most widely read of all his works, it not only tells the story of Augustine's struggle in the faith, but also his love for the Master.

This book is largely about his, and Wills argues that this is fundamental to the understanding of Augustine's character, theology and worldview.

For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies.