Saintly Support: A Prayer for Every Problem
Philip Lief Group, Philip Lief. Andrews McMeel Publishing, $14.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-7407-3336-9
Quick quiz: name the patron saint of the Internet. Stumped? It's Isidore of Seville, a sixth-century Spaniard who compiled a massive encyclopedia of the knowledge of his day. In Saintly Support: A Prayer for Every Problem, the Philip Lief Group has collected an A-Z list of 111 topics (rape, floods, breast cancer, sick animals, etc.) and their corresponding saints. Many saints are depicted in lovely b&w illustrations, and each saint's description comes with a corresponding prayer. An appendix features a calendar of feast days.
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Reviewed on: 05/01/2003
Genre: Religion