The four signs of a dynamic Catholic

LIFE Books managing editor, Robert Sullivan, has twice been awarded the Wilbur Award for best religion feature in a national magazine and has authored LIFE's New York Times best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II. He brings to this book his expertise on the subject of Christianity a long with text informed by the world's great scholars, theologians and religious figures.Jesus emerged from nowhere to become, in his short life-perhaps as few as 32 years-a thinker, teacher and preacher whose words and deeds would change the world and become the foundation for the world's largest religion. But the biography as outlined in the New Testament and apocryphal writings only tells us so much. LIFE's editors go, in words and pictures, in search of Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter's son who would one day influence all. The great photographer Denis Waugh once made a thorough, colorful and moving pictorial pilgrimage to the Holy Land exclusively for LIFE, and those images will anchor our quest. We will travel, as well, to the Vatican, to the missions of Africa, to the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco-to all that has risen in Jesus, name. In the book's final section, we will look at Christianity today: Its still vastly influential place in our tumultuous world

A book of photos and reflections on the Mysteries of the Rosary as depicted by the artist Berthold Imhoff in the church of Holy Rosary Shrine, Reward, Sask. Included are the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries, as well as a brief history of the Shrine and a brief biography of Imhoff.

THE SAINTS is the product of a distinguished galaxy of theologians and Bible scholars, historians, scientists, novelists and psychiatrists. These differing outlooks, united in a common Faith, combine to produce a stimulating book and a major reference tool. The contributors have attempted to describe what is interesting, wonderful and important in the lives of the saints. Care and accuracy is the hallmark. Unsubstantiated legend and tradition are avoided. Entries on over 2200 saints are in this book, including those canonized during the reigns of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. There is also a complete calendar of feast days.

This is a four volume set.

In the 1920's, Father Herbert Thurston, S.J., was asked to undertake a drastic revision and bringing up-to-date of Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints. In this edition a uniform order of presentation has been adopted, With a few special exceptions, the first saint (or feast) dealt with each day is that which is commemorated in the general calendar of the 'Western church, when there is one. The order of the rest is chronological.