The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Paperback Reference) - Softcover

Farmer, David Hugh

 
9780192800589: The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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From the famous to the obscure, this book provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1300 saints. Revised and updated for this new edition, it includes new entries on a number of recently canonized saints and a new appendix on patronages, confirming the work's reputation as a standard one-volume work on this subject.

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an essential reference work for anyone interested in the subject Daily Telegraph this delightful array of the good and the incredible is the sort of thing that gives hagiography a good name The Times excellent and readable ... A holy dip that's much more pleasant than baptism. Guardian

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From the famous to the obscure, this book provides concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1300 saints. Revised and updated for this new edition, it includes new entries on a number of recently canonized saints and a new appendix on patronages, confirming the work's reputation as a standard one-volume work on this subject.

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