The Book of Saints

by Roger Shaw (Editor)

Lavishly illustrated with amazing traditional, historical, and contemporary depictions of saints, this exquisite gift book offers up a year’s worth of saints, highlighting both the well-known and the unexpected or obscure contributors to our rich Christian heritage.

Organized by feast day throughout the calendar year, The Book of Saints is both a definitive reference work and a spectacular art book. Featuring fascinating stories of more than 500 saints from around the world, the book includes approximately 600 works of historic and contemporary art. This extraordinary reference book is a stunning keepsake and essential resource that makes a perfect christening, confirmation, or birthday gift, and is a great addition to any family library. The Book of Saints is an illustrated treasury of compelling information for the devout and the culturally inquisitive alike.

336 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2012

Reviews

[Min · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full-color images, from classical sources, and photographs, of the saints, and occasionally, the saint's emblem, to accompany the main articles. This book is more ecumenical than other books of saints. It attempts to spread the choices amongst the Eastern, Roman, and Anglican lists of saints, whilst recalling to memory those not often assigned sainthood, yet, have been instrumental social/religious affairs; Steven Biko, and Gandhi, for example.

Also, short vignettes for lesser known saints. There are often several saints offered on a single day when popular, or of historical importance. Each saint entry has, if known, their status/profession, birth place and date, death date, which of three jurisdictions calendars commemorate them, date of beatification, canonization, associated symbols/images, and the saint's patronage. Along with brief, scattered articles pertaining to Christian events, and topics, added with several glossaries, and an index to make this a beautiful, and helpful text for learning about the saints of the Christian world within some context.
It is an over-sized volume.

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pictorial guide to the saints with short biographies. Photos of paintings and relics are include as well as what group each saint is patron of. It is segmented by the feast day of the saint.