Biographies

Reflections on the Eucharist and aspects of our faith, informed by his experience of suffering and trust in God inside a Vietnamese prison. The ref...

Fr Alexander Men - Martyr of Atheism. Father Alexander Men (1935–1990), a priest assassinated after the fall of communism, is a highly regarded fig...

Francis and Thérèse. Great “Little” Saints. God, the Almighty, chose for himself as the place of his appearance what was the very smallest and most...

St. Francis for Today. Francis Bernadone - who was he? None other than St Francis of Assisi, a man with a decided message for our time. He lived in...

Frederick William Faber. A Great Servant of God. A comprehensive picture of the life and spiritual development of the founder of the London Oratory...

From Burma to Rome. On Palm Sunday 2013, in St Mary's Cathedral, Rangoon, Burma, Benedict Rogers was baptised, confirmed and received into the Chur...

George Macdonald. An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis him...

George Mackay Brown. No Separation. The poet, novelist and dramatist, is seen by some as not just Orkney's, but Britain's best twentieth-century po...

George Myers: Pugin’s Builder. George Myers (1803–1875) was one of the mid-nineteenth century's great masterbuilders. From his workshops, first in ...

Father Ignatius Spencer. The Spencers reached the peak of their wealth in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth century they achieved the comma...

In God's Hands. The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II – published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the lo...

The Indomitable Mr Cotham: Missioner, Convict Chaplain, and Monk. James Ambrose Cotham OSB (1810-1883), a Douai monk of the English Benedictine Con...

Strange Vagabond of God. Life of John Bradburne. John Bradburne’s life was a remarkable spiritual odyssey. After wartime service on the Indian sub-...

John Henry Newman - His Life and Legacy. New Biography by the world-renowed expert on Cardinal Newman, by Fr Ian Ker. The life of Cardinal John Hen...

St John of Ávila, Doctor of the Church. Discerning your Spiritual Journey. On 7th October 2012, Pope Benedict declared St John of Avila a Doctor of...

John XXIII, The Universal Parish Priest. Life of the Pope who inaugurated the Second Vatican Council. Intelligent, modest, joyful and from the humb...

Saint Josemaria Escriva and the Origins of Opus Dei. St Josemaría Escrivá, canonized by Pope John Paul II in October 2002, was born in 1902 in the ...

This important study of key Anglican Benedictine Communities in the first half of the 20th century provides a vital record of how the Anglican Comm...

Mr. Wason… I Think. Born in 1867 Leighton Sandy Wason (always known as Sandy) was ordained priest in 1898. In this well written and engaging biogra...

Louis and Zélie Martin. The Seed and The Root of The Little Flower. The canonization of Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieu...

Louis Marie de Montfort. His Life, Message and Teaching. St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort is one of the greatest teachers of devotion to the Ble...

Love is a Radiant Light.The Life & Words of Saint Charbel. “A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray sca...

Marthe Robin. A Chosen Soul, The story of a life of suffering lived with Christ. Marthe Robin was born into a peasant farming family in 1902, one o...

Sixteen hundred years after his death, Martin of Tours - soldier turned holy man and hermit - continues to exert a profound influence on our contem...