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Unlikely Spiritual Heroes

Unlikely Spiritual Heroes

Brennan Hill profiles eight unlikely heroes:

     Jean Donovan, a Harley-riding businesswoman, turns missionary and martyr

     Helen Prejean, a religious sister, befriends and advocates for murderers on death row

     Dorothy Stang, a religious sister and schoolteacher, champions the environment and loses her life doing so

     Pedro Arrupe, a medical school dropout and priest, survives a nuclear holocaust and becomes a great Jesuit leader

     Thomas Merton, a party-going ladies'-man, becomes a Trappist monk and peace activist

     Maximilian Kolbe, a sickly, eccentric Franciscan, turns publisher and dies in Auschwitz, trading his life for a Jewish prisoner

     Joseph Bernardin, a bookish, shy son of Italian immigrants, becomes one of the most outspoken prelates of our time

     Karol Wojtyla, a young Polish poet and actor whose election to the papacy under the name John Paul II changes history

These unlikely heroes saw great injustice, sorrow, and violence in the world and, in their own ways—some small, some universal—sought and created love, justice, peace, and hope for our time.

Part Number BK2148


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