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One hundred saints : their lives and likenesses drawn from Butler's 'Lives of the saints' and great works of western art

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In street and city names, churches and other, more personal associations, the saints are always with us.

This text presents saints in all their splendour - in both word and image.

The selection reflects contemporary interest and patronage.

All the apostles are featured, as are the Church Fathers.

Also included are saints whose lives and works provide fascinating glimpses into ther holy lives and the traditions and beliefs that have grown because of them.

We see Bernini's sculptural representations of Teresa of Avila in ecstasy; Debastian's martyrdom as pictured by Titian; and El Greco's penetrating rendering of St.

Martin and the Beggar.

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Bulfinch Press,U.S.
0821228161 / 9780821228166
Paperback / softback
01/01/2001
United States
English
279 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
28 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1993.