Saints for Sinners: Goodier

Nine desolate souls made strong by God. Christ came not for the just, but for sinners, and these stories prove just that. From Augustine to Margaret of Cortona, these stories are both interesting and inspiring, written for our encouragement. 

• BK37920
• Alban Goodier
• Originally published in 1959
• 161 pp.
• English
• ISBN: 978-1-933184-28-9
• Nine saintly biographies:
  • Augustine of Hippo
    • The hedonistic heretic and womanizer who traded worldly pleasure for divine happiness and became one of the Church's greatest theologians
  • Margaret of Cortona
    • The willful Tuscan beauty with a bad reputation who forsook vanity and lust to answer God's call to live in poverty and penance
  • John of God
  • Francis Xavier
  • John of the Cross
  • Camillus de Lellis
    • The mercenary fightying man and itinerant gambler who left behind his rough soldier's habits and founded a religious order to care for the sick
  • Joseph of Cupertino
  • Bl. Claude de la Colombiere
    • The royal chaplain and daring Counter-Reformer who escaped the gallows but had to endure a lifelong interior martyrdom of doubt and discouragement
  • Benedict Joseph Labre