Biographies

Dewi Sant—Saint David. Patron Saint of Wales. “In dedicating the mosaic in honour of St. David at Westminster Cathedral, Pope Benedict spoke of the...

The Dictionary of Mary, is an invaluable sourcebook book that is equal to a short summa about the Blessed Virgin Mary. Written by foremost scholars...

Dom Augustine Baker 1575–1641, Edited by Geoffrey Scott. Augustine Baker OSB is arguably the most important English mystical teacher of the post-Re...

Dr Franz Hildebrandt. Franz Hildebrandt’s early ministry began and developed under the shadow of the swastika in Hitler’s Germany. His close, deep ...

Edith Stein Discovered. The daughter of a Jewish family, was born in 1891. After a spectacular academic career, she became a cloistered Carmelite n...

Discovering Edith Stein, by Pat Lyne. Edith Stein’s autobiography, Life in a Jewish Family, ends with a joyful scene celebrating her award of a doc...

Edith Stein, woman of Prayer. Edith Stein, canonized in 1998 and now a co-patroness of Europe, is rightly coming to be seen as one of the most impo...

Edmund Arrowsmith, born in Lancashire of a Catholic family, chose to serve Christ and the people of England by becoming a Jesuit priest. His love f...

Edmund Campion. A new and definitive life of Campion. Simpson's classic biography has been thoroughly revised and enlarged by Fr Peter Joseph. With...

Edward Caswall, Newman’s Brother and Friend. Satirist, humorist, Church of England vicar and convert to Roman Catholicism, Edward Caswall (1814-187...

When Silence Speaks. The essence of the spirituality of French mystic Elisabeth Leseur was her wholehearted embrace of Christ’s command to mutual l...

Elizabeth Hayes (1823–94) was a woman whose personal life and achievements are of significance in both British and North American religious, social...

Elizabeth of the Trinity. Today, many people are searching for greater depth in their lives and searching for inspiration. St Elizabeth of the Trin...

Elizabeth of the Trinity, her life and spirituality. “A vibrant prophet of the presence of God” is how Pope John Paul II described Elizabeth of the...

Elizabeth Prout: 1820–1864. A Religious Life for Industrial England. revised edition of this classic biography of a remarkable woman, a heroine of ...

English Catholic Heroes. A book to inspire Catholics of all ages and to inform non-Catholics of the impressive gallery of England's Catholic heroes...

English Catholic Heroines. In this book a group of distinguished authors with varying interests champion the achievements of twenty-three seminal f...

The English Jesuits from Campion to Martindale. Abridged and edited by Rodger Charles, SJ. Despite the rigorous and continued persecution of the Ca...

Andrew Graystone is an everyday activist who believes in the power of tiny acts to change the world. He is the person whose image went viral when, ...

Fathers and Anglicans helps us to re-appropriate a vital part of the Anglican approach to the living reality of Christ.  This book deals with the v...

Reflections on the Eucharist and aspects of our faith, informed by his experience of suffering and trust in God inside a Vietnamese prison. The ref...

Fr Alexander Men - Martyr of Atheism. Father Alexander Men (1935–1990), a priest assassinated after the fall of communism, is a highly regarded fig...

Francis and Thérèse. Great “Little” Saints. God, the Almighty, chose for himself as the place of his appearance what was the very smallest and most...

St. Francis for Today. Francis Bernadone - who was he? None other than St Francis of Assisi, a man with a decided message for our time. He lived in...

Frederick William Faber. A Great Servant of God. A comprehensive picture of the life and spiritual development of the founder of the London Oratory...

From Burma to Rome. On Palm Sunday 2013, in St Mary's Cathedral, Rangoon, Burma, Benedict Rogers was baptised, confirmed and received into the Chur...

George Macdonald. An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis him...

George Mackay Brown. No Separation. The poet, novelist and dramatist, is seen by some as not just Orkney's, but Britain's best twentieth-century po...

George Myers: Pugin’s Builder. George Myers (1803–1875) was one of the mid-nineteenth century's great masterbuilders. From his workshops, first in ...

Father Ignatius Spencer. The Spencers reached the peak of their wealth in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth century they achieved the comma...

In God's Hands. The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II – published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the lo...

The Indomitable Mr Cotham: Missioner, Convict Chaplain, and Monk. James Ambrose Cotham OSB (1810-1883), a Douai monk of the English Benedictine Con...

Strange Vagabond of God. Life of John Bradburne. John Bradburne’s life was a remarkable spiritual odyssey. After wartime service on the Indian sub-...

St John of Ávila, Doctor of the Church. Discerning your Spiritual Journey. On 7th October 2012, Pope Benedict declared St John of Avila a Doctor of...

John XXIII, The Universal Parish Priest. Life of the Pope who inaugurated the Second Vatican Council. Intelligent, modest, joyful and from the humb...