John Gilmary Shea, ed.

This book of nearly 500 pages is the perfect solution for so many Catholics anxious to get reacquainted with the lives of the more popularly known saints, but who have too little time to read more thorough biographies.

There are approximately 500 entries covering the feast days for each day of the year with an accompanying pictorial sketch of the saint being honored.

The historical information is taken from the original work of the great hagiographer, Fr. Alban Butler, as well as from a few other sources. Meditations are also provided for the major moveable feasts. A convenient index for ready reference completes this most excellent pious work.  Originally published in 1878, we decided to make this wonderful treasure of saints available once again in 1997.

If you are looking for a more abridged version of the original Butler’s Lives of the Saints, you have it here. What better way to incite young and old to imitate the saints than by giving them a less compendious and easily read production through which to whet their appetite with holy desires?