A beautifully illustrated collection of the stories of the Saints the
whole family will love -- by father and daughter writing team, John and
Catherine Cavadini, with stunning portraits by Anastassia Cassady.
This collection, Saints: A Family Story, is composed of stories the
authors have written for their own children and grandchildren and
friends. They are adapted from Scripture, from original sources within
the Tradition, and from the writings of the saints themselves or their
family and friends. The saints are presented as a "Family," living in
many different times and places. Just think: many of these saints
learned to love and to live the faith through the witness of their
parents and grandparents or their brothers and sisters. Other saints
form spiritual families, with connections between them found across the
centuries.
The stories begin with Pope St. John Paul II because he called the
Church today to sanctity by giving us the gift of more and more saints.
The stories then move chronologically, from stories of saints in the
Gospels, to martyrs, confessors and ascetics of the early Church, to
saints of the medieval period, and to more modern saints, like Ven.
Augustus Tolton, Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati and St. Teresa of Calcutta.
Through the stories of these saints, we receive new brothers and
sisters, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers in the
faith. Each person's life tells the "story" of God's love in a unique
and unrepeatable way. The illustrations bring shape and color to these
stories, capturing the true diversity among the magnificent and
beautiful "family of saints."
