Publisher's Synopsis
'Butlers Lives of the Saints' and other collections have long told of the remarkable lives of those whose courage has led them to die for their faith down the centuries. An extensively researched and eminently readable collection, this is no hagiography itself. Rather, to do justice to its modern subjects it recounts and analyses their lives (and deaths) with an intimate, contemporary approach, more journalism than saintly gloss. Each of 20 subjects is tackled in an honest, often stark and sometimes controversial way by a different writer and include some of the best known figures of the century: Martin Luther King, Steven Biko, Oscar Romero, Bonhoeffer, Simone Weil, Patrick Pierse, Alexander Menn and Maria Goretti. This is the first serious attempt to record those who have done so in the 20th century.
