Dictionary of Saintly Women (2 vols.)
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Overview
Glean rich insights into the history of the Church, discover less commonly-known saints, and see more clearly in Christian history the important role of women. Agnes B.C. Dunbar’s A Dictionary of Saintly Women contains more than 800 pages of reference on female saints through the ages. The first and most complete work of its kind, Dunbar’s text provides an exhaustive list of saints along with historical, biographical, or other relevant details as they are available for these holy women. This two-volume set includes an index and list of sources. This exhaustive work offers easy access to knowledge of hundreds of women that God has used throughout time, and sheds light on the important contributions they have made.
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- Provides an exhaustive listing of female saints
- Offers biographical, historical, and other relevant details
- Includes an index and list of sources
With the help of the Acta Sanctorum and a very considerable knowledge of later work, [Dunbar] has compiled an excellent summary of a vast number of lives of female saints. Her survey extends over the whole Church prior to the severance of East and West, the Western Church as a whole up to the Reformation, and the Roman Church afterwards. So far as we have been able to test the book, it is very well done, and from the best authorities.
—Church Times
The present compiler has gone to the best sources. . . . Unquestionably, it will be found to be an exceedingly useful book of reference.
—Catholic Times
The authoress of this book undertook a work which demanded ability and discrimination. In performing it she has displayed both. . . . The biographical sketches are well written, and the dictionary will be valuable both as a work for pious use, and a book of reference.
—Expository Times
- Title: A Dictionary of Saintly Women
- Author: Agnes B.C. Dunbar
- Publisher: George Bell and Sons
- Volumes: 2
- Pages: 848
- Resource Type: Handbooks
- Topic: Saints