Abancay. Un obispo en los Andes peruanos
Autobiography of Msgr. Enrique Pèlach, who as a young priest left his native Spain and settled in the Peruvian Andes. This book is a testimony of his gratitude to St. Josemaría, who always urged him to...
Testimonies of Christian Life
From Fire, By Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith
Sohrab Ahmari is an Iranian born journalist working in New York. In this autobiography he recounts the stages of his life leading up to his conversion to Catholicism in 2016. He was born in Tehran in 1985....
Memoirs of Chaplain Life
These are excellent memoirs of William Corby, a Catholic priest who attended to the Union soldiers, above all to those of the celebrated Irish Brigade, during the American Civil War. The author describes...
Mission accomplished
Biography of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, first successor of the founder of Opus Dei, St. Josemaría. The book gathers many details of Don Alvaro's life in childhood and youth, until he entered in the Work,...
Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau
Diary written by a priest from Luxembourg, arrested in the 2nd world war, and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. His crime? Being a good priest. Like so many other priests, he was moved there to...
Given to Others: The Life of Toni Zweifel
This is a profile of an Italian-Swiss Engineer (1938-1989), who died from leukemia, and whose cause for beatification is on-going. On his death-bed Toni Zweifel summarised his life saying to those who...
Life is Blessing- A biography of Jérôme Lejeune
This stunning biography written by a daughter of Jerome Lejeune describes an atmosphere in Paris at that time which was hostile to scientific truth. Prof. Lejeune won admiration and honours all over the...
The vanguard of the East. Memoris of the expansión of Opus Dei in the Philippines
It narrates the memories of the beginning and development of the apostolic work carried out by the women of Opus Dei in countries of Southeast Asia between 1965 and 1995. Ana Labrada Rubio (1945) lived in...
The Shed that Fed a Million Children
Soon after the turn of the century, the author visited Medjugorje and witnessed the plight of the Bosnian children there and wanted to do something practical about it. He filled his shed in Scotland with...
Mother Teresa of Calcutta. A Personal Portrait
Some books change our view of reality and help us face life with optimism. This is one of them. The contemporary saint, in her autobiography, unveiled what was behind her fragile body and sympathetic smile...