📚 Saints

Lives made official: the calendar, the relics, and the biographies where faith and history share a desk.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject saints in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Saint Francis of Assisi	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1923	547
	Confessions	Augustine of Hippo	1482	451
	Legenda aurea	Jacobus de Voragine	1476	96
	The lives of the saints	Sabine Baring-Gould	1872	55
	Martyrology	Catholic Church	1499	43
	Lives of the saints	Alban Butler	1894	31
	The book of saints and heroes	Leonora Blanche Lang	1912	25
	Correspondence	Saint Jerome	1471	24
	Saint Lydwine of Schiedam	Joris-Karl Huysmans	1901	22
	Sacred and legendary art	Mrs. Anna Jameson	1857	20
	Altruistic love	Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin	1950	14
	Hildegard of Bingen	Sabina Flanagan	1989	14
	The Oxford dictionary of saints	David Hugh Farmer	1978	13
	Ten saints	Eleanor Farjeon	1936	10
	Thérèse Martin	Rosemary Haughton	1957	9
	Philosophical texts	Thomas Aquinas	1951	8
	Saints are not sad	Frank J. Sheed	1949	7
	Joan of Arc	Nancy Wilson Ross	1953	7
	De Lagrimas Y De Santos	Emil Cioran	1986	7
	Knights of God	Lynch, Patricia	1945	6
	Spiritual theology	Jordan Aumann	1980	6
	Joan of Arc	Diane Stanley	1998	6
	Patrick	Tomie dePaola	1992	5
	The holy twins	Tomie dePaola	2001	5
	Padre Pio the Stigmatist	Charles Mortimer Carty	1951	4
	The Penguin dictionary of saints	Attwater, Donald	1965	4
	Saints That Moved the World	Rene Fulop-Miller	1972	2
	Likeness and Presence	Hans Belting	1994	2
	The encyclopedia of saints	Rosemary Guiley	2001	2
	Brother Francis and the friendly beasts	Margaret Hodges	1991	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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