Esta é uma inédita coletânea extraída da obra monumental do célebre hagiógrafo inglês, Padre Alban Butler. São mais de 40 biografias que percorrem os séculos e jamais nos deixam de impressionar. Nesses martírios refulgem a coragem, a fé e a determinação de homens e mulheres que encontraram na repetição do Calvário o caminho mais certo rumo ao Céu.
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.