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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Saints by David Hugh Farmer ISBN: 0-19-860629-X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Comment: An excellent source for information on saints of the Roman Catholic Church and the Ortodox Church up through the Schism. It does not include saints of the Episcopal Church, but does include those popular saints such as Barbara and Christopher removed in the 1968-69 time frame. I use it in writing my monthly column for my parish newsletter.
Rating: 4
Summary: More than Lives
Comment: An entertaining and informative dictionary of saints that not only gives the lives of the saints but also a history of their folklore, veneration and relics. Farmer includes "popular" saints like St. Werner (who was never formally canonized), desanctified saints like Barbara, and a few saints of the Orthodox traditions. Appendices list patron saints and symbols associated with the saints. You will not find every saint in this work, but the ones you do find are described in rich detail. I bought this book for a narrow purpose and soon found myself reading it from cover to cover in bed. The only bothersome thing, for me, is Farmer's Anglophilia: he gives space to many obscure English and Irish saints while ignoring some key figures from other parts of the world, like St. Diego of Alcala (for whom San Diego is named). Nonetheless, it is a useful book for either reference or entertainment.
Rating: 5
Summary: Balanced and interesting
Comment: Balanced, informative, and interesting summary of available information on approximately 1300 saints, with useful system of indexing and cross-referencing.
In summarizing the lives of the saints, some sources seem to want to gloss over the more fantastic, fairy-tale aspects of some stories, while other sources will drift off into a Daily Meditation self-help format. This text takes an even-handed and academic approach, that allows the reader to draw his own conclusions.
As a Californian, it is a little frustrating to deal with the British bias on saints, and find nothing about saints who were chosen for California place names like San Dimas, San Luis Obispo, San Diego (Didacus?), and San Ysidro. But overall this is an excellent source for hagiographic trivia and history.
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Title: The Penguin Dictionary of Saints (Penguin Reference Books) by Donald Attwater, Catherine Rachel John ISBN: 0140513124 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Saints Preserve Us! : Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Need by Sean Kelly, Rosemary Rogers ISBN: 067975038X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 19 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Popes by J. N. D. Kelly ISBN: 0192820850 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Pocket Dictionary of Saints by John J. Delaney ISBN: 0385182740 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Saints by Rosemary Ellen Guiley ISBN: 0816041342 Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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