This short story collection contains adventure stories, romances, mysteries and allegories in a wide variety of settings. The protagonists are frequently at decision-making moments in their lives. The psychological insights contained in some stories will help readers to understand what is happening in their own ambience. A few of the stories are semiautobiographical in nature, but the vast majority are works of the imagination.

An individual may have three personalities which govern how he relates to family, friends and strangers. Over a lifetime he may lose and regain these personalities. Whole societies are characterized by the presence or absence of certain personalities. An individual's socioeconomic class is determined by his use of intellect and personality. The book discusses the importance of role model in socioeconomic success. It comments on the present moment in the psychological history of Western civilization and also contains a chapter on sadomasochism which touches on Hitler's sadism and how World War...

Volume II concerns saints who lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries during the Renaissance and Reformation. It includes biographies of Angela Merici who dedicated her order to the education of girls, the Jesuits who discovered ways to attract people out of heresy, Francis Xavier who used different methods in different mission lands, Isaac Jogues who found savages and left them civilized, Pius V who changed a crime-ridden Rome to a Christian society almost overnight, and Francis de Sales who converted an entire region to the Catholic Faith. This was a time of tectonic societal...

Volume I includes saints from the days of the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages. Telling details from the lives of well-known saints such as Augustine, Catherine of Siena, Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Margaret of Scotland are related as well as the lives of less well-known saints such as Apollinaris who convinced Emperor Marcus Aurelius to end his persecution of Christians and Pulcheria who ruled the Eastern Roman Empire for decades. This book recounts the miracles, thoughts and even mistakes of these men and women whose love for God and their fellow men brought them into union with the...

Volume III concerns saints in the modern era such as Julie Billiart who directed an underground church from her sickbed, Josemaria Escriva who brought mystical spirituality to the laity, Pio of Pietrelcina who appeared in the sky to pilots intent on bombing Italy, Pius X who performed healing miracles during papal audiences and by correspondence, the Carmelite martyrs of the French Revolution who ended the Reign of Terror, Paul of Moll who advised people on their future, and Nguyen Van Thuan who converted North Vietnamese communist cadres while their prisoner.

A wealthy landowning family in the Roman city of Lixus on the Atlantic coast of Mauretania has to decide what to do when they receive the news that the Vandals are advancing down the coast. Marriage plans are suspended and options are examined. The monks who run a boys school consider sailing west in order to come out on the Eastern Roman Empire. Humor is provided by the beggars in the breadline at the monastery gate, one of whom moves in society and styles himself "the poet laureate of western Mauretania."