Christian Lives
Saints and servants of Christ — Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant — the lives the whole Church holds dear.
Told from within the tradition — with reverence, accuracy, and without comparative judgment.
Saint John the Forerunner and Baptist
The last of the prophets and the forerunner of Christ, who baptized in the Jordan and prepared the way of the Lord.
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
A Capuchin friar of southern Italy who bore the wounds of Christ for fifty years and spent his life in the confessional, drawing countless souls back to God.
Saint Patrick
A Roman-British boy carried to Ireland in chains who returned as its apostle, and brought a whole nation to the faith.
Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
An American seeker who found the ancient Orthodox faith and, from a Californian wilderness, became a monk and a teacher for the modern age.
St. Seraphim of Sarov
A Russian starets and wonderworker who greeted every soul as 'my joy,' radiant with the light of the Holy Spirit from his forest hermitage.
St. Joan of Arc
A farmer's daughter of Domrémy who heard the voices of the saints, led the armies of France at seventeen, and gave her life for her king and her God at nineteen.
St. Teresa of Avila
A Carmelite nun and mystic of Spain who reformed her order and mapped the soul's ascent to God in the seven mansions of the Interior Castle.
Saint Benedict of Nursia
The father of Western monasticism, whose Rule of prayer and work — ora et labora — shaped the life of Europe for fifteen centuries.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Francis of Assisi
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Nicholas of Myra
Augustine of Hippo
Hildegard of Bingen
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
