Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise Edition, Revised and Updated

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One of the most well-known and relied-upon reference works of all time has been updated and revised! Butler published his original edition of his Lives, many successors have revised and updated the work. We have extensively proofread the text thus generated, and have made the layout “user friendly” as the moderns so succinctly state. Around 1746, Butler served as tutor and guide on the Grand Tour to James and Thomas Talbot, nephews of Gilbert Talbot, 13th Earl of Shrewsbury. Echoing the charm and style of the eighteenth-century edition, Walsh's volume has been edited to make the fascinating and inspiring lives of the saints easily accessible to readers today.

She tried to convince a Christian missionary that there is no God, but was converted to Christ instead. It is on this account we have ventured to designate The Lives of the Saints an historical supplement to the Old and New Testaments.

The lives of the saints provide effective stimulation for the daily observance of our baptismal vows, for the practice of fidelity, justice, prayer and contemplation. also had a copperplate engraving with figures of the Roman devices of torture used, and a 2-page explanation of their use. 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. I found most of the saints, especially the martyrs, depressing, not inspiring and somewhat akin to the religious radicals of today.

It was founded in 1999 from the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault in France and is located in the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma.The reason is that there are so many very different books being printed under this author’s name and under this title due to it’s long history (the work is almost 300 years old) and its universal popularity. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The twelve volumes of the revised Butler's Lives of the Saints correspond to the months of the year; each volume contains entries on saints with feast days in that month. An interesting collection of short biographies of various saints, arranged so that there is one per day of the year. This is the original version of Butler's Little Pictorial Lives first published in 1874 and largely taken from Butler's original work.