Christianity - Biographies

The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts

by Richard Challoner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Enlightening, profitable, edifying, inspiring – a few words to describe this collection of lives and sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothe…

Two Short Catechisms

by John Owen Read by InTheDesert 5
The first edition of these Catechisms issued from the press in 1645. Dr Owen had at that time the charge of the parish of Fordham in Essex, …

Kept for the Master's Use

by Frances Ridley Havergal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Kept for the Master's Use offers a glimpse into the life of Frances Ridley Havergal, a dedicated missionary and celebrated hymn writer. Thro…

The Life of St. Paul

by James Stalker Read by Ron Altman 4.8
Born into privilege and highly educated by the most esteemed teacher of his time, Saul of Tarsus became a leading thinker among the Pharisee…

The Story of a Soul

by Saint Therese Of Lisieux Read by Susan Morin 4.6
She is also known as St. Thérèse of Child Jesus. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873; died at Lisieux 30 Se…

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints

by John Gilmary Shea Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…

Letters from New Zealand

by Henry William Harper Read by Beeswaxcandle 4.9
"Being some Account of Life and Work in the Province of Canterbury, South Island." A set fo 26 letters covering the Author's perio…

Raymond Lull

by Samuel Zwemer Read by AletheiaCharis 5
With his vast knowledge in a wide range of subjects, Raymond Lull was a Renaissance man before the time of the Renaissance. After encounteri…

St. Joseph of Copertino

by Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchitranslated Byrev. Francis S. Laing, Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchitranslated By Rev. Francis S. Laing and Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Joseph of Copertino (1603 – 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. He was said to …

The History of the Church of Christ

by Joseph Milner Read by InTheDesert 5
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…

The Life and Glories of St. Joseph

by Edward Healy Thompson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A wonderful work on the life of St. Joseph, the true husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster-father of Jesus Christ. - Summary by Mozartjr

Down In Water Street

by Samuel Hopkins Hadley Read by KHand
Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the e…

Funeral Oration on Meletius

by St. Gregory of Nyssa Read by A LibriVox Volunteer 4.7
Saint Meletius was Patriarch of Antioch from 360 until his death in 381. One of his last acts was to preside over the First Council of Const…

The History of St. Dominic

by Augusta Theodosia Drane Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"The Saint who ‘studied only in the book of charity,’ who was ‘the lover of souls,’ because he was ‘the friend of Jesus Christ,’ who is…

Twenty Years on Horseback

by William Marion Weekley Read by Will Shakespeare 4.2
William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From the au…

The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers

by Palladius Read by ancientchristian 5
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…

Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador

by Augustine Berthe, Augustine Berthetranslated Bymary Elizabeth Ashe À Court-Repington, Baroness He…, Augustine Berthetranslated By Mary Elizabeth Ashe À Court-Repington, Baroness H… and Augustin Berthe Read by Maria Therese 5
Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (1821–1875) was an Ecuadorian pol…

The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers

by Palladius Read by ancientchristian 4.9
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…

Prophets & Kings

by Ellen G. White 5
Audiobook: Prophets & Kings Beginning with King Solomon, this book recounts the stories of great men and women of the Bible who lived fr…

A Crown for Joanna

by Sister Mary Jean Dorcy Read by Maria Therese 4.4
She was born a princess, heir to her father’s kingdom of Portugal, and she might at will have reigned from almost any throne in Europe. But …

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