Sacred Sisters focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Ite, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland's sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of women in Irish Christianity's development. Women served as leaders and teachers, perhaps even as bishops and priests, and men and women worked together in a variety of arrangements as well as independently. Previous studies of gender in medieval Irel...
Les Revelations de Sainte Hildegarde, Ou Scivias Domini: Manifeste (Ed.1863) (Religion)
by Hildegarde
Saint Columban: His Life, Rule, and Legacy contains a new English translation of a commentary on the entire Rule of Columban. Columban was a sixth-century Irish monk who compiled a written rule of life for the three monasteries he founded in France: Anegray, Luxeuil, and Fontaines. This volume also includes the first English translation of the Regula cuiusdam Patris ad Virgines, or the Rule of Walbert, compiled by the seventh-century Count Walbert from various earlier rules designed for women, i...
The Rule of Benedict (Cistercian Fathers, #56) (Cistercian Studies, #256)
by Georg Holzherr, OSB
In his introduction to this commentary on the Rule of Benedict, Abbot Georg Holzherr offers this analogy: "The Rule is comparable to an old heavy red wine that is enjoyed in small sips. . . . Head and heart, soul and mind should taste the words of the Rule, just as the eye enjoys the color of the wine while tongue, nose, and mouth take in the delightful gift of God each in their own way." In this new translation, based on the completely revised seventh edition of DieBenediktsregel, Holzherr ha...
The Severed Breast (Juan de La Cuesta: Hispanic Monographs)
by Andrew M Beresford
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (Hagiography Beyond Tradition, #2)
The Life of Our Holy Father, John the Almsgiver
by St George Monastery, Anna Skoubourdis, and Monaxi Agapi
Orthodox Saints of the British Isles
by Dr John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall
Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints-including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops-for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time when England was under increasingly severe Viking attack, the examples of these saints modeled courageous faith, self-sacrifice, and individual and collective resistance. The Lives also covers topics as d...
Thomas Merton's biography of a little known saint, St. Lutgarde of Aywieres, the Cistercian mystic, now reissued.
A collection of twenty legends of saints and friendly beasts.
The Way of Perfection (Dover Thrift Editions) (Pilgrim's Pantry)
by St Teresa Of Avila
God will always give us more than we ask for Millions have read and benefited from this book since it was first written nearly 500 years ago. St. Teresa's message of humility, simplicity, persistence, and faith is replete with language that is at times earthy, and full of self deprecating humor. Rendered here into contemporary English, St. Teresa's words, with their warm-hearted approach to Christian transformation, will help you look deeply into what it really means, sometimes in the smallest...
