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What are the best biographies of Catholic saints?

>> No.15508270

>>15508263
The Golden Legend

>> No.15508294

Life of St Anthony
Story of a soul (Therese of Lisieux)

>> No.15508323

I found this catholic book folder, includes biographies
https://shrib.com/?v=nc#HornedPuffin6nZ1L80
It won't allow me to post it otherwise

>> No.15508827

>>15508263
Nikos Kazantzakis wrote a book on Saint Francis I haven’t read but have heard is good

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>> No.15508869

>>15508856
Whoever put Paradise Lost on this list didn’t read it

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>>15508263
>https://shrib.com/?v=nc#HornedPuffin6nZ1L80

I'm also interested as well. Looking for something that extends beyond Legenda Aurea and covers all of the modern saints if possible.

Posting something that I found here once which I found quite useful. It might help you OP.

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>>15508294
https://stjohnmiami.org/sites/all/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=https%3A%2F%2Fstjohnmiami.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fbook%2F55%2Flife-st-anthony-st-athanasius.pdf

>> No.15508892

>>15508880

Don't know why that copy and pasted the link.

>> No.15508931

>>15508869
Milton may have been anti-Catholic but it doesn't mean the work is without merit for the Catholic reader

>> No.15508945

>>15508856
>Paradise Lost

>> No.15510433

Bumping

>> No.15510533

>>15508856
i got banned from catholic answers fro quoting saint john chrysostom. so i assume their "survival guide" is about how to be pozzed.

>> No.15510563

>>15508856
Theophan the Recluse is Orthodox. Did the person who wrote this not know he wasn't Catholics or just not care enough

>> No.15510577

>>15510533
>i got banned from catholic answers fro quoting saint john chrysostom.
I'm guessing you posted Against the Jews right? Do Catholics have any recent saints who are critical of jews? It's pretty funny when i get some diaspora greek telling me not to be antisemitic and then quoting St John of Kronstadt and St Nikolai Velimirovich lmao

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>>15510577
yeah and i didn't even post the part about them being beasts fit only for slaughter, just the part about how they're the assassins of Christ. also, i don't know of any recent saints who are "antisemitic," and they are rarely even anti-anything. this is what our saints do now.

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>>15510617
>this is what our saints do now.
Yeah that's pretty rough. Our doors are always open to you if you get fed up with it all

>> No.15511368

>>15508270
This

This is the most well known and influential book about the saints

>> No.15511505

I can't recommend enough Chesterton's biography of St. Francis of Assisi. It's my favorite book of his. A very colorful and poetic understanding of scenes from the life of the saint and the impact he had on all of christianity.

I also recommend Chesterton's biography of Thomas Aquinas.

>> No.15511562

Butler's Lives of Saints has been updated a few times. Not sure what the latest edition is but there's probably a new one out since the millennium

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Can anyone recommend anything about Catherine of Siena?

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>>15511576
Just read her Dialogue, it's really good in its own right. She's a Doctor of the Church for a reason.

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>>15510577
>>15510617
He's not a saint (yet) but Benedict got accused of Anti-Semitism a few times. Not as much as he got accused of hating Muslims, though.

God he's so based, I love him so much. He's the reason so many more priests celebrate the Latin Mass these days as opposed to ten years ago.

>> No.15511623

>>15511607
i hope he gets a redemption arc.

>> No.15511710

>>15508294
St. Anthony punched demons in the face

Totally based

>> No.15511729

>>15511607
>He's not a saint (yet
I'd hope not since he's still alive