Overview
Ordinary Suffering of Extraordinary Saints reveals these and dozens of other heart-touching stories behind the popular biographies of the Saints.
Here you'll find real men and women facing very real sufferings: addiction, illness, grief, divorce, disability, unemployment, loneliness, poverty, and discrimination.
By using the saints' own words as often as possible, Vinvent J. O'Malley, C.M., discloses the seldom-discussed temptations, failures, and sorrows of more than one hundred saints.
These extraordinary men and women-from Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Maximilian Kolbe to Clare of Assis, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Therese of Lisieux-became of saints despite, they grew profoundly more human and more Christ-like.
Let their stories heal the wounds in your life and encourage you to allow God's love to transform your suffering into the eternal triumph of the saints.