{"product_id":"saints-are-not-sad","title":"Saints Are Not Sad","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by F. J. Sheed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe years between the two terrible World Wars \u003c\/b\u003ebore witness to a revival in hagiography: numerous bestselling books took as their topic or inspiration the life of a saint. In the wake of these book-length treatments of God’s elect there followed “shorter sketches of saints, of the same decent reality, appearing here, there and everywhere.” As a collector of these studies in sanctity, no one was (and is) better qualified than F. J. Sheed. Bearing witness to the veracity of the Salesian mantra, “A sad saint would be a sorry saint,” \u003ci\u003eSaints Are Not Sad \u003c\/i\u003eboasts an assembly of thirty-four saints, beginning with the fiery heroism of St. Paul and concluding with \u003ci\u003ele petite voie \u003c\/i\u003eof St. Thérèse of Lisieux, presented by such luminaries of twentieth-century Catholic letters as G. K. Chesterton and Alice Curtayne, R. H. J. Steuart and Ida Coudenhove, Vincent McNabb and C. C. Martindale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eRejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice. \u003c\/i\u003e(Philippians 4:4)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAn encounter with the saints, writes Sheed in his introductory note, offers a twofold benefit of \u003ci\u003erelief from monotony \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003econtact with vitality\u003c\/i\u003e. The enduring value of \u003ci\u003eSaints Are Not Sad \u003c\/i\u003eis that it offers such an encounter both marvelously and manywise\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. J. Sheed \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e(1897–1981) was a writer, publisher, and speaker, widely recognized as one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century. With his wife, Maisie Ward, he founded the publishing house of Sheed \u0026amp; Ward, which revived the Catholic literary movement and promoted innumerable intellectual, literary, and artistic treasures of the Catholic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 402pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685952105\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51320587616544,"sku":"978-1685952105","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3678\/2112\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--875.jpg?v=1773076020","url":"https:\/\/treewee.store\/products\/saints-are-not-sad","provider":"Tree of Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}