This work is compiled from Butler's larger Lives of the Saints and gives a short instruction for each day of the year. It is a must have for any Catholic library. This work also have the lives of American Saints, which are placed on the calendar by the Third Council of Baltimore. This work commences with reflections on the liturgical year. Then follows the reflections for a saint for each day of the year.

Father Butler's famous Lives of the Saints ranks only after the Bible, the Missal, and The Imitation of Christ as the all-time most popular and authoritative Catholic book. This handy one-volume edition is taken from the many original volumes compiled by Butler. Father Alban Butler (1710-1763), was an English Catholic priest and scholar who devoted almost 30 years of meticulous research to the lives of the Saints and was originally published in the 1750's. This present edition contains no debunking, as do many other editions; thus, it conveys Fr. Butler's spirit of profound faith and...