My favorite saint is Saint George from the fourth century, patron saint of England. I like to see the lives of the saints because they are a good example of people that dedicated their lives to a christian purpose whether it be something I approve of or not. Are you going to start lighting candles and praying to your aunt that dedicated her life to Christ? No.

This isn't true, they are idles when people put a shrine in their house and pray to the saints.Īnyone that dies and goes to Heaven is considered a saint according to the Holy Bible so that means that your family that died in Christ are saints.

The Catholic Vatican says that Saints are not idles because they are not worshiped but only a symbol of a godly and saintly life. In this book we see the early centuries of saints dying after the fall of the Roman empire for their faith and in the next book we see people that say that Mary supposedly appeared to them or they were made saints after their death by the church for their deeds (most saints were already in the church). 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.I can tell that the early saints were worshipers or martyrs of Jesus, and in later centuries commenced the idolatry of Mary. Ilene CooperĬopyright © American Library Association. The lives of saints continue to be a source of inspiration for many children buy this handsome book where there will be an audience. Her father struck her down with his own sword.' In Saint Cecilia's case, Sanderson writes that 'she was arrested, tortured and beheaded.' This sentence is rather jauntily followed by the statement, 'Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians and singers.' Some names are familiar (Saint Christopher is included, although he has been removed from some official lists of saints), but many are not, perhaps because Sanderson has chosen saints from the Eastern Orthodox tradition as well as from the Roman Catholic Church. In the profile of Saint Barbara, the text notes, 'When a shepherd betrayed her to her father, she was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death. Although not sensationalized, the descriptions clearly relate how many of these people were martyred. Each saint gets a lovely oil-and-pencil portrait that takes up a third of the page and an overview of his or her life. Forty saints are introduced, two to a spread. This compilation of saints almost feels like a throwback to another era.

Saints by Ruth Sanderson