Beatification and Canonization

Father Faber’s classic Essay on Beatification, Canonization and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites summarizes, in a concise, stimulating read, the entire contents of scholar-pope Benedict XIV’s multi-volume compendium on the same subject. In these pages the reader will learn more about the saints, about what sainthood is, and about the processes by which the Church judges it, than in any other book in the English language. It has the added merit that Faber, who is widely regarded as a candidate for canonization himself, approaches the saints with infectious enthusiasm and ardour.