Saintly Youth of Modern Times - Joan Carroll Cruz

By Joan Carroll Cruz

Holiness comes in all sizes. Sometimes the very small are the greatest in wisdom and grace. Sometimes the very young demonstrate heroic faith, hope, and love far beyond their years.

Saintly Youth for Modern Times presents the biographies of more than forty of these amazing individuals from around the globe including one who died at the age of six! Here are boys and girls who watched cartoons on television, went to school, and enjoyed playing sports with their classmates. Here are young men and women who attended dances, drove cars, and loved chatting on the phone with their friends. Here are Catholics who fully lived the Faith -- and some who courageously died for it. From those expected to soon receive the title of Servant of God to those already canonized and declared Saints of the Church, here are young souls whose unwavering love of Christ in the Eucharist and devotion to his Blessed Mother continue to inspire lives today.