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How much do you know about the saints? Saints of the Liturgical Year, brimming with information, includes over two hundred and sixty brief biographies, including thirty-three new entries, as well as a glossary of terms to help explain the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. Based on the General Roman Calendar, presently in use in the Roman Catholic Church, it also includes the feasts, Saints,...

English-speaking countries, his name has become corrupted into Santa Claus, the bringer of gifts to children on Christmas Eve. St. Nicholas is the patron of Russia. St. Ambrose was born of an aristocratic Roman family in Trier, Germany, in about 339. His father was praetorian prefect of Gaul (modern France), and after the father’s death, the family moved to Rome, where Ambrose studied (361–65) law. He entered (about 365) the civil
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