TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bunson, Matthew
AU  - Bunson, Margaret
AU  - Bunson, Stephen
TI  - Our Sunday Visitor's encyclopedia of Saints
SN  - 879735880
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Huntington, Ind.
PB  - Our Sunday Visitor
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - sears
N2  - Contains saints of the Catholic Church ,famous and extremely obscured saints and beati.Special attention is given to the martyrs of the faith ,who died in offering their lives to God,and many of whom are still Blessed but their examples warrant their inclusion.Many of the finest examples of sanctity are to be found in the martyrs who remain Blesseds ,such as those of England ,Vietnam,Korea  and Japan.Several beat are exceedingly noteworthy as historical figures ,such as Blessed Father Damien of Molokai and Blessed Edith Stein .Includes processes of canonization,the systematic examination  by custom in which science and faith peer into the miracles and apply the most current developments in historiography to determine the often shadowy details of a potential saint's life
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