Saints for the Family

Best-selling author of Saints for Our Time and Saints for the Journey, Fr John Murray introduces us to a selection of saints for the family. Among those included are traditional Biblical figures like Joseph, husband of Mary as well as Elizabeth and Zechariah. There are classical saints too from the Church's past, such as Margaret of Scotland and Bernadette of Lourdes. However, the author wants to show also that many who came from families also experienced difficulties and trauma, people like Laura Vicuna who suffered abuse, and Antonia Brenner who had two failed marriages before befriending prisoners in a maximum security complex. There too is Sr Ignatia who helped in the founding of the AA organisation, and Bartolo Longo who at one time was a satanist 'priest' but became in time a great devotee of the rosary. There are also couples included, like the parents of Therese of Lisieux, as well as the parents of Pope John Paul II, and couples like Felip and Maria Barreda who died during the Nicaraguan civil war, and Jacques and Raissa Maritain who blazed a path in the intellectual life of the 20th century.

Messenger Publications, 2018, ISBN 978-1910248966, 86pp.