Subject: Christian saints (Keywords)

Following the death of her mother, Ella spent some years at Windsor with her grandmother, Queen Victoria. During this time she met & became engaged to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovitch. It was at their wedding that her sister, Alix, formed a love match with the future Tsar Nicholas II, an event wh...

Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. In this book, Alistair Moffat journeys from the island of Eileach an Naoimh at the mouth of the Firth of Lorne to Lismore, Iona and then north to Applecross, searching for traces of these e...

From the famous to the obscure, this book provides accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints.

Edward and Lorna Mornin take 130 popular saints and provide a brief account of each one's achievements, both real and legendary, and details of their conventional attributes, usually the tools of their trade or instruments of their martyrdom.

There is a permanent fascination about the lives of eminent people, and this is no less true of those whose faith and religious zeal have made them 'great'. In this new book the author provides a series of mini-biographies of forty-five of the better known saints, and brief notes on many more. Th...