[BlackVeil]

Find a written biography of a Saint that particularly appeals to you, and read it during Lent.

Does anyone have suggestions about favorite books on saint's lives? I read a lot of biographies - I like them.

[Salvation]

I would suggest a couple:

Long -- The Diary of St. Faustina

Shorter but out of print -- get a used one on a website
A Man for Others by Patricia Treece about St. Maxmillian Kolbe.

[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.

[Frank Sheed]

Chesterton does a marvelous job on St. Francis of Assisi and on St. Thomas Aquinas. I have read both and they are better than some tomes 5 times their length. He manages to capture the essence of these holy men.

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[Maeve]