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A Journey with the Saints in ordinary life...
Loyola Press
March 2006
Featuring: James Martin
411 pages
ISBN: 0829420010
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Religion | Non-Fiction Memoir
James Martin has led a thoroughly modern life: from a
lukewarm childhood Catholicism, to the Wharton School of
Business, to the executive fast track at General Electric,
to the Jesuits, to a media career in Manhattan. But at every
step along the way he has been accompanied by special
friends—the saints of the Catholic Church. These holy men
and women are not just historical figures to him. Martin’s
attachment to them is real and personal. The saints have
guided him. He convincingly shows how the saints can be our
friends too. Martin’s saintly friends come from the whole of Christian
history—from St. Paul to John XXIII— and they include
Thérèse of Lisieux, Joan of Arc, Ignatius Loyola and other
beloved figures. They accompany the author on a pilgrimage
that includes stops in a sunlit square of a French town, a
quiet retreat house on a New England beach, the housing
projects in inner-city Chicago, the sprawling slums of
Nairobi, and a gorgeous Baroque church in Rome. As James
Martin’s inspiring, witty, and surprising account unfolds,
we see how saints can help us to find our way in the world.
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