An alphabetical reference book to the lives and legends of more than 750 saints, from Christ's apostles to the men and women who have been canonized in recent times, with full details of their work, their feast-days, emblems, and dates of canonization. The author, a Roman Catholic, has specialized for many years in hagiology and carried out the most recent revision of the standard work, Butler's Lives of the Saint. Though the records of many saints are necessarily scanty, he has aimed to make this dictionary as historically reliable as possible.