This highly acclaimed dictionary provides wide and insightful coverage of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,700 saints, ranging from the famous to the obscure, the academic to the uneducated, and the rich to the poor. Informative and entertainingly written, it is an indispensable source for both specialists and general readers. Features maps of European pilgrimage sites, a calendar of principal feasts, and an appendix on pilgrimage and relics. Paperback.
