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234 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Italian Carmelite Antonio Maria Sicari's vibrant biographies of saints -- from Augustine to Catherine of Siena to Faustina Kowalska -- have been read across Europe for decades. In How Saints Die, Sicari turns to the most difficult challenge in the life of a Christian: the hour of death. What he uncovers in this darkest moment, however, is not desolation, but inexplicable joy. 'I have recounted the death of many saints," he writes, 'but all of them...
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Everybody knows the story of Santa Claus, the red–suited figure who lives at the North Pole and distributes gifts to good children every Christmas eve. But is there any historical evidence on which this jolly old character is based? Was there a real Santa Claus? To answer that question, host Mark Wilson, a distinguished historian and archeologist travels not to the North Pole but to modern day Turkey and Italy. There he uncovers clues that lead...
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x, 292 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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This biography captures the combination of down-to-earth humanity and profound, enriching spirituality that is Teresa of Avila's hallmark. This balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents, her travels around Spain to found...
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362 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Inspired by the true story of a former slave who became a saint, this poignant novel explores how a human being can survive the obliteration of her identity, and how kindness and generosity can be born out of profound trauma. She recalls little of her childhood, not even her own name. She was barely seven years old when she was snatched by slave raiders from her village in the Darfur region of southern Sudan. In a cruel twist, they gave her the name...
52) Saint Augustine
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xx, 152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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A fully documented, inspiring portrait of the 15th-century peasant-turned-saint draws on historical facts, folklore and centuries of critical interpretation to evaluate the questions attributed to her character.
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xiv, 657 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is your power and to your wisdom there no limit." So begin the Confessions of St. Augustine: the most intimate and heartfelt prayer ever composed, a cornerstone of Western thought, and a study of anguish, hesitation, and divine intervention that influences Christians -- Catholics and Protestants alike -- to this day. But the Confessions do not tell the full story of Augustine's tumultuous life...
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Criterion collection volume 62
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2 videodiscs (81 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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None
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"Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques--expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, painfully intimate close-ups--to immerse viewers in her subjective experience....
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