How to Use This Book
Voices of the Saints can be read in a variety of ways.
1. The book presents the saints in chronological order from Mary, the Queen of All Saints, to Carlo Acutis, a millennial born in 1991. Following this arrangement will give you a sense of where the saints fit into the flow of Church history. Voices of the Saints includes 365 saints, so that you can read one selection each day throughout the year.
2. You can also read Voices of the Saints by topic. Just choose a theme from the chart of ninety-six themes and go to the saints that are listed for each topic. You will find subjects of perennial interest such as Angels, Prayer, and Suffering. And you may be intrigued by such topics as Married Saints, Feisty Saints, and Twenty-Something Saints.
3. The book includes an alphabetical index so that you can find a saint that interests you.
4. By using “A Calendar of the Saints,” you may read this book through the year from January to December. Note that while the calendar is based on the liturgical year of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, only saints presented in Voices of the Saints are listed.
Whether you wish to read Voices of the Saints chronologically by their place in the timeline of Church history, by their feast day, or simply as a sort of encyclopedia of saints is totally up to you. Get a copy of this illuminating and versatile book on the lives of the saints for yourself or a loved one today!
“The best preparation for prayer is to read the lives of the saints, not from mere curiosity, but quietly and with recollection a little at a time. And to pause whenever you feel your heart touched with devotion.”
— St. Philip Neri
Contents
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
Introduction
Daily Readings
Themes
A Calendar of the Saints
References
Copyright Acknowledgments
Glossary
Index of Saints’ Names
Saints featured in Voices of the Saints
Aelred of Rievaulx
Agnes
Alban
Albert the Great
Alcuin
Aldobrandesca
Alexander
Aloysius Gonzaga
Alphonsus de Orozco
Alphonsus Liguori
Alphonsus Rodriguez
Ambrose
Ammon
Amphilochius
André Bessette
Andrew
Andrew of Crete
Angela Merici
Angela of Foligno
Anne-Marie Javouhey
Anna Maria Taigi
Anselm
Anthony Grassi
Anthony Mary Claret
Anthony of Egypt
Anthony of Padua
Anthony Zaccaria
Aphraates of Persia
Apphian
Assunta Pallotta
Athanasius
Augustine
Augustine of Canterbury
Balthild
Barnabas
Basil the Great
Bede
Benedict
Benedict Biscop
Benedict Joseph Labre
Benedict of Aniane
Bernadette Soubirous
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernardino of Siena
Bertilla
Bonaventure
Boniface
Braulio
Brendan the Navigator
Bridget of Sweden
Brigid
Bruno
Caedmon
Caesarius of Arles
Cajetan
Camillus de Lellis
Carlo Acutis
Casimir
Catherine Labouré
Catherine of Genoa
Catherine of Siena
Cecilia
Charles Borromeo
Charles de Foucauld
Charles Lwanga and Companions
Charles of Sezze
Christopher
Clare of Assisi
Claude la Colombière
Clement I
Clement Mary Hofbauer
Clement of Alexandria
Clotilda
Colette
Columba
Columban
Cuthbert
Cyprian of Carthage
Cyril and Methodius
Cyril of Jerusalem
Damien the Leper
Daniel the Stylite
David
Dionysius of Alexandria
Dominic
Dominic Barberi
Dominic Savio
Dunstan of Canterbury
Edith Stein
Edmund Campion
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth Leseur
Elizabeth of Hungary
Elizabeth of the Trinity
Ephrem
Epiphanius of Pavia
Eucherius
Eulalia of Mérida
Eulogius of Cordoba
Eusebius of Vercelli
Euthymius the Great
Fabiola
Faustina Kowalska
Faustus of Riez
Felicity
Felix of Nola
Fina
Flannan
Flora
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Frances of Rome
Frances Xavier Cabrini
Francis Borgia
Francis de Sales
Francis de Geronimo
Francis of Assisi
Francis of Paola
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier Seelos
Frédéric Ozanam
Frideswide
Fulgentius of Ruspe
Gabriel Francis Possenti
Gall
Gall of Clermont
Gaudentius of Brescia
Gemma Galgani
Genevieve
George Matulaitis
George of Lydda
Gerard Majella
Germanus of Auxerre
Germanus of Constantinople
Gertrude of Delft
Gertrude the Great
Gianna Molla
Giles of Assisi
Gregory VII
Gregory Lopez
Gregory Nazianzen
Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory of Sinai
Gregory the Great
Gregory the Wonderworker
Hedwig
Hilarion
Hilary of Arles
Hilary of Poitiers
Hilda
Hildegard of Bingen
Hippolytus
Honoratus of Arles
Hugh of Lincoln
Humbert of Romans
Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius of Loyola
Ildefonsus of Toledo
Irenaeus
Isaac Jogues
Isidore of Seville
Jakob Gapp
Jacopone da Todi
James the Great
Jane de Chantal
Jerome
Joachim and Anne
Joan Antide-Thouret
Joan of Arc
Joan of France
John
John Baptist de La Salle
John Baptist de Rossi
John Berchmans
John Bosco
John Cassian
John Chrysostom
John Climacus
John Damascene
John de Brébeuf
John Eudes
John Fisher
John Forest
John Gabriel Perboyre
John Henry Newman
John Kolobos
John Leonardi
John Neumann
John of Ávila
John of Capistrano
John of God
John of the Cross
John Regis
John Ruysbroeck
John the Baptist
John the Silent
John Vianney
Jordan of Saxony
Josaphat
Joseph
Joseph Cafasso
Joseph of Cupertino
Joseph Pignatelli
Josephine Bakhita
Julian of Norwich
Julie Billiart
Julien Maunoir
Junípero Serra
Justin Martyr
Kateri Tekakwitha
Katharine Drexel
Kentigern
Kevin
Korean Martyrs
Lawrence
Leander of Seville
Leo the Great
Leoba
Leonard of Port Maurice
Louis IX
Louis de Montfort
Louis of Granada
Louise de Marillac
Lucy Filippini
Luke
Lutgarde of Aywières
Macarius the Great
Macrina
Madeleine Sophie Barat
Malachy
Marcella
Margaret Clitherow
Margaret Mary Alacoque
Margaret of Hungary
Margaret of Scotland
Marguerite Bourgeoys
Marguerite d’Youville
Maria Goretti
Marie of the Incarnation
Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran
Mark
Martin I
Martin de Porres
Martin of Braga
Martin of Tours
Mary
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi
Mary Mazzarello
Mary MacKillop
Mary of Egypt
Mary of the Angels
Matt Talbot
Matthew
Maurus
Maximilian Kolbe
Maximus of Turin
Mechtild of Helfta
Mechtild of Magdeburg
Melania
Methodius of Olympus
Michael Garicoïts
Miguel Pro
Monica
Nicetas of Remesiana
Nicholas
Nicholas I
Nicholas of Flüe
Norbert
Odo of Cluny
Odoric of Pordenone
Olaf
Oliver Plunkett
Olympias
Osanna of Mantua
Óscar Romero
Pachomius
Padre Pio
Paschal Baylón
Patrick
Paul
Paul Miki
Paul of the Cross
Paul the Hermit
Paula
Paula Frassinetti
Paulinus of Nola
Pelagia the Penitent
Perpetua
Peter
Peter Canisius
Peter Chrysologus
Peter Claver
Peter Damian
Peter Favre
Peter Fourier
Peter Julian Eymard
Peter of Alcántara
Peter Sanz
Philip Benizi
Philip Neri
Pier Giorgio Frassati
Pius X
Polycarp
Pope John Paul II
Proclus
Prosper of Aquitaine
Rabanus Maurus
Radegund
Raphael Kalinowski
Raymond of Capua
Raymond of Penyafort
Richard Rolle
Rita of Cascia
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Southwell
Roque González
Rose of Lima
Rose Philippine Duchesne
Rudolf Aquaviva
Sabas
Scholastica
Sebastian Valfrè
Seraphim of Sarov
Severin of Noricum
Severinus Boethius
Simeon Stylites
Simeon the New Theologian
Solanus Casey
Stanislaus Kostka
Stanley Rother
Stephen
Stephen of Hungary
Sturm
Syncletica
Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Kolkata
Theodore of Canterbury
Theodore of Sykeon
Theodore the Studite
Théophane Vénard
Thérèse of Lisieux
Thomas
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Becket
Thomas More
Thomas of Villanova
Timothy
Titus
Titus Brandsma
Ubald of Gubbio
Valerian
Vedast
Venantius Fortunatus
Veronica Giuliani
Vincent de Paul
Vincent Ferrer
Vincent of Lérins
Vincent of Saragossa
Wenceslaus
Wilfrid
Willibrord
About the Author
About the Author
Bert Ghezzi is a popular Catholic author. He has written twenty books, including The Sign of the Cross, The Power of Daily Prayer, and Saints at Heart. Hundreds of Bert’s articles have appeared in the Catholic and religious press. Bert has seven children, seventeen grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. He lives near Orlando, Florida.
