Windows on the Saints, Volume II

Download or read book Windows on the Saints, Volume II written by M. F. A. Dillon and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II concerns saints who lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries during the Renaissance and Reformation. It includes biographies of Angela Merici who dedicated her order to the education of girls, the Jesuits who discovered ways to attract people out of heresy, Francis Xavier who used different methods in different mission lands, Isaac Jogues who found savages and left them civilized, Pius V who changed a crime-ridden Rome to a Christian society almost overnight, and Francis de Sales who converted an entire region to the Catholic Faith. This was a time of tectonic societal change in which the saints provided a stabilizing influence through their prayer, fasting and charitable works.