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Saints for Today: Reflections on Lesser Saints

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Have you ever heard of St. Ralph Milner? How about Gemma Galgani or Robert Southwell? Ivan Innerst has done a masterful job of telling the stories of these lesser-known Saints of the Church.

Not only are the twelve probably unfamiliar to most, but their stories are truly inspiring, such as illiterate farmer Ralph Milner who refused simply to walk into the doors of a nearby Anglican church and was martyred in England.

This collection includes the stories of: Ralph Milner, Paschal Baylon, Rosalia, Isidore the Farmer, Theophane Venard, Margaret Clitherow, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nicholas of Flue, Margaret of Citta-di-Castello, Arsenius, Gemma Galgani, and Robert Southwell.

In the hands of very capable writer Innerst, these stories truly come alive. I highly recommend this little book.

This book was simply awesome! I could not put it down from the moment I picked it up; I read through it in one afternoon. These are saints that you probably have never heard about before, and it made me so interested I did some research on my own of other saints. Highly recommended!