Christianity - Biographies
St. Joseph of Copertino
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Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchitranslated Byrev. Francis S. Laing and Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchitranslated By Rev. Francis S. Laing
Joseph of Copertino (1603 – 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. He was said to …
Saint Augustin (Saint Augustine)
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Louis Bertrand
What, indeed, is more romantic than this wandering life of rhetorician and student that the youthful Augustin led, from Thagaste to Carthage…
Ponnamal, Her Story
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2
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John Tulloch
In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…
Hildebrand and his Times
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William Richard Ward Stephens
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 2 (April-June)
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John Gilmary Shea
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…
The History of the Church of Christ: Century III
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Joseph Milner
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…
St. Francis of Assisi (Version 3)
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G. K. Chesterton
In this brief but lively biography, G.K. Chesterton brings all his typical wit and insight into discussing Francis of Assisi. Francis is arg…
William Blake
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G. K. Chesterton
From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…
Jerry McAuley: His Life and Work
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Jerry Mcauley
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in…
Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings
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John Quincy Adams
A collection of nine letters written by the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, to his teenage son. "Their purpose…
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 5 (American Saints)
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John Gilmary Shea
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…
The History of the Church of Christ: Century IV
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Joseph Milner
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…
The Valley of Baca: a Record of Suffering and Triumph
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Jennie Smith
Jennie Smith was a 19th-Century Job. At 15 years old, her father's business and finances failed, and he later died of illness, leaving her f…
Woman in Sacred History
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
A series of sketches of 19 women in the Bible, drawn from scriptural, historical and legendary sources. Separated into 3 divisions: Women of…
Charles Simeon
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Handley Carr Glyn Moule
Charles Simeon had come up to King’s college from Eton, a wild undergraduate, famous for his love of horses and extravagance in dress; but o…
Mimosa, Who Was Charmed
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
“This story is true. It tells the eternally new tale of the matchless charm of our Lord Jesus Christ. One look at that loveliness, and, th…
The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts; or The Wonders of God in the W…
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Richard Challoner
Enlightening, profitable, edifying, inspiring – a few words to describe this collection of lives and sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothe…
Down In Water Street
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Samuel Hopkins Hadley
Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the e…
The History and Literature of the Early Church
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James Orr
This little book in its original form was one of the volumes of the Christian Study Manuals series (1901), and as such was found helpful to …