Did you know that Gandhi was afraid of ghosts and terrified of snakes? Or that St Wulstan tried to stop the slave trade 800 years before the birth of William Wilberforce?
You have probably heard of Teresa of Calcutta and Elizabeth Fry, but what do you know about Wang Zhiming of China, or Katharine Drexel of Pennsylvania?
Saints and Saintly People is Clare Richards' second book telling the stories of saints and heroes of the Christian faith. In this collection she offers an insight into the lives of lesser-known saints, and saintly people from other faith traditions accompanied by beautiful illustrations by Donald Melvin.