[The King of Elflands Daughter]

I very much like the biography St. Teresa of Avila by Marcelle Auclair and Thomas of Celano's Saint Francis of Assisi. I also find reading Dante's Divine Comedy (the whole work, not just Hell) to be useful, especially the edition with Dorothy Sayer's translation and commentary, which used to be the standard Penguin edition.

[trisham]

Catholic/Lent bump.

[Salvation]

Those sound like excellent recommendations. I was hoping someone else would recommend books, so that I could choose one.