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Biography & Autobiography

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Johannes Jorgensen - Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography

Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day, which included fighting as a soldier. In 1205, while away at war, he...

dave7 12 hours 47 minutes

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Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

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Unknown - Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble...

Ann Boulais 4 hours 2 minutes

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Charles Warren Stoddard - Lepers of Molokai

This is the story of the lepers of Molokai and of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Damien, who ministered to those who languished in that desolate place, waiting for death to release them from a most intense form...

dave7 1 hour 52 minutes

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Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Year

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Alban Butler - Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Year

Compiled from the much larger 12 book set of «Butler's Lives of the Saints», this volume contains short biographies of the Saints, for each day of the year, followed by a reflection for each entry. (Summary by Maria...

Maria Therese 14 hours 12 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Norman F. Langford - King Nobody Wanted

In a very real and interesting way, The King Nobody Wanted tells the story of Jesus. Where the actual words of the Bible are used, they are from the King James Version. But the greater part of the story is told in...

Dawn Larsen 3 hours 30 minutes

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Self-Help

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Russell Conwell - Acres of Diamonds

Text of famous inspirational lecture and biography of Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister and Temple University Founder (Summary by Scott Dahlem)

Scott Dahlem and 1 more 4 hours 29 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Saint Teresa of Avila - Life of St. Teresa

Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, (March 28, 1515, at Gotarrendura (Ávila), Old Castile, Spain – October 4, 1582, at Alba de Tormes, Salamanca,...

Ann Boulais 13 hours 31 minutes St. Teresa of Avila

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History

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William Byron Forbush - Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was...

TriciaG and 7 more 9 hours 32 minutes

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

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William Byron Forbush - Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 9 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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Saint Augustine of Hippo - Confessions (Outler translation)

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes...

Mark Barnes and 9 more 13 hours 49 minutes

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