Lay Saints

Martyrs

Joan Carroll Cruz

• Publisher: TAN Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9780895558381
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religious Biographies

In Lay Saints: Martyrs, Joan Carroll Cruz guides you through the lives of seventy-three lay men and women who achieved the heights of sanctity. These inspiring biographies present martyrs who displayed extraordinary fortitude in holding fast to their faith in the midst of great persecution.Find a role model from among these saints as Joan Carroll Cruz explores: • their acts of fortitude that you can imitate• the burning love for God displayed by the martyrs• stories of heroism, self-denial, and trust in God• how martyrdom and suffering, heroically endured, en- courages the faith of othersIn this volume are people from all walks of life and time periods who lovingly embraced the opportunity to die for their refusal to renounce the True Faith.While many people may never get the chance to forfeit their lives for Christ in so dramatic a fashion, these saints should serve as a guiding light in the endurance of the small sacrifices and persecutions of everyday life.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Preface: A Word About the Blessed Virgin Mary
• One: Blessed Adrian Fortescue
• Two: Saint Afra
• Three: Saints Agape, Chionia, and Irene
• Four: Saint Agatha
• Five: Saint Agnes
• Six: Saint Alban
• Seven: Saint Anne Lyne
• Eight: Blessed Anthony Primaldi
• Nine: Blessed Antonia Mesina
• Ten: Saint Aurelius and Saint Natalia
• Eleven: Saint Bibiana
• Twelve: Saint Blandina
• Thirteen: Saint Boniface of Tarsus
• Fourteen: Saint Cassian
• Fifteen: Saint Cecilia
• Sixteen: Blessed Charles the Good
• Seventeen: Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions (The 22 Martyrs of Uganda)
• Eighteen: Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
• Nineteen: Saint Dymphna
• Twenty: Saint Edmund, King of East Anglia
• Twenty-One: Blessed Edward Coleman
• Twenty-Two: Saint Edwin
• Twenty-Three: Saint Epipodius and Saint Alexander
• Twenty-Four: Saint Eulalia of Merida
• Twenty-Five: Saint Felicitas and Her Seven Sons
• Twenty-Six: Saint Flora and Saint Mary
• Twenty-Seven: Saint Genesius
• Twenty-Eight: Saint Hallvard
• Twenty-Nine: Saint Hermengild
• Thirty: Saint Hyacinth and Saint Protus
• Thirty-One: Blessed James Bird
• Thirty-Two: Blessed James Duckett
• Thirty-Three: Saint James Intercisus
• Thirty-Four: Saints John, Anthony, and Eustace
• Thirty-Five: Blessed John Slade and Blessed John Bodey
• Thirty-Six: Blessed John Felton
• Thirty-Seven: Saint John Rigby
• Thirty-Eight: Saint Julia
• Thirty-Nine: Saint Julitta and Saint Cyricus
• Forty: Saint Julitta
• Forty-One: Saint Lucian and Saint Marcian
• Forty-Two: Blessed Marcel Callo
• Forty-Three: Saint Marcellus
• Forty-Four: Saint Margaret Clitherow (St. Margaret of York)
• Forty-Five: Blessed Margaret of Louvain
• Forty-Six: Blessed Margaret Pole
• Forty-Seven: Saint Margaret Ward and Blessed John Roche
• Forty-Eight: Venerable Nicholas Horner
• Forty-Nine: Saint Nunilo and Saint Alodia
• Fifty: Saint Pantaleon
• Fifty-One: Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicitas
• Fifty-Two: Saint Philemon and Saint Apollonius
• Fifty-Three: Blessed Pierina Morosini
• Fifty-Four: Saint Pollio
• Fifty-Five: Saint Polyeuctus
• Fifty-Six: Saint Potamiana
• Fifty-Seven: Blessed Ralph Milner
• Fifty-Eight: Saint Regina
• Fifty-Nine: Saint Richard Gwyn (St. Richard White)
• Sixty: Blessed Richard Herst
• Sixty-One: Saint Sabas
• Sixty-Two: Saint Serenus
• Sixty-Three: Saint Simon of Trent
• Sixty-Four: Saint Solangia
• Sixty-Five: Saint Swithin Wells
• Sixty-Six: Saint Theodota
• Sixty-Seven: Saint Thomas More
• Sixty-Eight: Blessed Thomas Percy
• Sixty-Nine: Blessed Thomas Sherwood
• Seventy: Saint Victor of Marseilles
• Seventy-One: Saint Wernher
• Seventy-Two: Blessed William Howard
• Seventy-Three: Saint William of Norwich
• Index of Saints: Their Lives and Difficulties
• Bibliography