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What are some good books that focus on the lives of Catholic
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What are some good books that focus on the lives of Catholic saints? Works that focus on individual saints would be ideal, but something like a Bulfinch's Mythology for saints would be great too.
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Chesterton's book on St. Francis is pretty good.
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>>8027504
I'm interested, bump
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>>8027504
also interested. Saint stories were the comic books of the middle ages (stories about superheroes, everybody knows the main ones, some people get really into it, debates about canon, etc.)
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>>8027603
And now I can help but think of Saints Patrick, Christopher, and Francis of Assisi teaming up Avengers style to fight super Satan.
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>>8027711
would watch
>>8027504
The Dumb Ox by Chesterton.
Did you try the writings of the saints themseleves?
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butler's Lives of the Saints
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Legend

This one covers most of the early christian saints and martyrs.
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>>8027504
Confessions by Saint Augustine
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