Butler’s Lives of the Saints: Supplement of New Saints and Blesseds - New Full Edition

Butler's Lives of the Saints, Monthly

by Alban Butler, Paul Burns

The long pontificate of Pope John Paul II has produced an unprecedented flurry of beatifications and canonizations. The twentieth century in particular has been noted as "the century of martyrs," many of which are featured prominently in this new full edition, a continuation of the tradition of one of the most well-known and relied-upon reference works of all time. The Supplement of New Saints and Blesseds covers canonizations and beatifications enacted from late 1999 to the end of 2003 in chronological order. Blesseds appearing in previous volumes who have since been canonized have had their information updated and expanded. How to live a Christian life of faith is a question every generation has sought to answer. Invariably, they have turned to the lives of the saints. The candidates included in this volume are worthy and offer challenge and inspiration to us all.

262 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

Alban Butler was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer.

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. It is a popular and compendious reproduction of the Acta Sanctorum, exhibiting great industry and research, and is in all respects the best compendium of Acta in English. Butler's magnum opus has passed many editions and translations.