Butler's Lives of the Saints (4 Volume Set)

For more than two centuries, Butler's Lives of the Saints has been hailed as the authority on the Christian patron saints. This classic of hagiography provides biographical accounts of 2,565 saints, from the most eminent to the most unlikely. The four volumes move through the year and thus encourage fascinated browsing; a reader can check out the saints venerated on his or her birthday, discover which are patrons of what and enjoy a lot of good reading. This monumental work was first compiled in the 18th century by Alban Butler. Lives of Saints is most revered Catholic book after Bible, Missal The Imitation of Christ.

First written in the mid-eighteenth century, Butler's Lives of the Saints, now available in a four-volume set was revised in 1956 to include 2,565 saints compared to the original 1,486. Carefully edited Herbert J. Thurston, S.J., and Donald Attwater to retain the charms of Butler's original prose style, this work of devotion and scholarship offers truths central to Christianity and underlying themes of Christian love.

This set costs R2400 new.