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Over 200 years ago, Mary Jones longed to have a Bible of her own. After saving for six years, she…
set off on a 50 mile journey with the hope that she would be able to buy a bible and bring it home becoming one of the inspirations behind the founding of the British & Foreign Bible Society. For grades 5-8. 2000.By Katharine Klassen Snider. 1998
By F. A Forbes. 2013
Vincent De Paul (c.1581-1660) was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. When a…
young man he was captured by Turkish pirates, who brought him to Tunis and sold him into slavery. He escaped in 1607 and went on to become a priest with a ministry to the poor. In 1625 de Paul founded the Congregation of the Mission, a society of missionary priests commonly known as the Vincentians or Lazarists and with the assistance of Louise de Marillac he later founded the Daughters of Charity whose selfless nursing work in hospitals throughout the world and during many plagues is well known. First published in 1919. 2013.By Debbie Morris, Gregg Lewis. 1998
Morris's story takes "Dead Man Walking" one step further to tell her gripping, first-person account of evil, suffering, healing, and…
above all, the incredible power of forgiveness in the face of tragedy. [1998].By Marcel Légaut, Jean-Claude Breton. 2000
By Lorraine Létourneau. 1990
By Lorraine Létourneau. 1990
By Lorraine Létourneau. 1990
By Marie-Francoise Le Brizaut. 1985
By Edouard Le Joly, Jean-Pierre Bagot. 1985
By Paul M Beckingham. 2005
A compelling and rigorously honest account of unimaginable suffering forged detail-by-excruciating-detail in Kenya and Vancouver into a whole and holy…
life. The magnificence of the story itself is matched by the magnificence of the writing. 2005.By Mary Haskett. 2008
By Franz-Olivier Giesbert. 2012
" Je n'ai jamais eu à chercher Dieu : je vis avec lui. Avant même que je sois extrait par…
des spatules du ventre de ma mère où je serais bien resté, si on m'avait demandé mon avis, il était en moi comme je suis en lui. Il m'accompagne tout le temps. Même quand je dors. C'est ma mère qui m'a inoculé Dieu. Une caricature de sainte mystique qu'un rien exaltait, des pivoines en fleur aussi bien qu'une crotte de son dernier-né, au fond du pot. Je suis sûr qu'elle avait de l'eau bénite en guise de liquide amniotique. Elle exsudait la foi. " -- 4e de couvBy François De Laval, Hermann Giguère. 2000
By Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Augustine. 2007
Written shortly after he became Bishop of Hippo, "Confessions" highlights Augustine's childhood in Numidia and his riotous youth and early…
manhood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan. It also chronicles his continuing struggle with sin and his efforts to find satisfaction in Manichaenism and Neoplatonism. Particularly poignant are his mother's tireless efforts to rescue him from self-destruction and his dramatic conversion to the Christian faith at age 32. 2007. Uniform title: Confessiones.