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Presents more than 10,000 alphabetical entries on the lives of Christian saints and includes information on such topics as the canonization process, emblems of the saints, patron saints, and mystics.

With more than 10,000 entries, Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints is the most comprehensive one-volume reference ever published on the Catholic Church's saints and beati.

Provides detailed entries on the antiquities of pre-Columbian Central America and the civilizations of region's peoples

With more than 10,000 entries, Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints is the most comprehensive one-volume reference ever published on the Catholic Church's saints and beati.

Of all the canonized saints, half have been canonized in the time of John Paul II. Here they are, saints from every nation under the sun, many of them from very near our own time.

A riveting blend of history, anthropology and ethnology, this book chronicles the courage and dedication of the many men and women who sacrificed their lives to bring the Gospel to the Native Americans. Interweaving threads of courage, endurance and lasting devotion with the darker stitches of mistreatment, political rivalries and hatred that marked so many interactions with the native peoples, the authors restore a long-overlooked and vastly misunderstood part of American history to its rightful and righteous place.

The book recounts events in the life of the author and relatives from his crib to the present, with experiences in flying, camping, hunting, schooling, engineering, patent law, and evangelism--a quite varied combination.