Now fully revised and updated the book of saints is a comprehensive biographical dictionary of saints canonised by the roman catholic church it contains the names of over 10000 saints including all modern ones with significant information about their lives and achievements. Now fully revised and updated the book of saints is a comprehensive biographical dictionary of saints canonised by the roman catholic church it contains the names of over 10000 saints including all modern ones with significant information about their lives and achievements. This best selling book is about saints remembered in the calendar of the catholic church apostles martyrs bishops and missionaries holy men and women who loved god and his people in a remarkable way some died for their faith in christ others served the poor upheld the cause of justice pursued truth and prayed to god with exceptional results. The positive here is this book includes many obscure saints so if youre looking for a saint that isnt widely known or written about he she may be in here the negative is that information even on major saints about whom there is a wealth of knowledge the information here is minimal a small paragraph at best. The book of saints a dictionary of servants of god canonized by the catholic church by st augustines abbey ramsgate england publication date 1921 topics saints publisher london a c black ltd collection americana digitizing sponsor brigham young university contributor harold b lee library language