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RR 2005/288 Oxford Dictionary of Saints (5th edition) Edited by David Farmer Oxford University Press Oxford 2003 (Re-issued as a paperback 2004) xxiv + 579 pp. ISBN 0 19 860629 X (hbck), ISBN 0 19 860949 3 (pbck) £8.99 (pbck)
Keywords Christianity, Christian theology, History
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120510613067
This concise dictionary of saints is already a standard reference work in the field. It is remarkably wide-ranging for a one volume work, with over 1,400 entries, and, although necessarily selective in its coverage, embraces saints from North and South America, Eastern Europe and the Far East, as well as reflecting the large number of saints recently canonized by John Paul II. The criteria for inclusion are clearly laid out: all English saints are dealt with, including those who died abroad, or foreign saints who died in England; saints whose feasts are in the important church calendars (both Roman and Anglican); the most important and representative saints of Scotland, Ireland and Wales; and other saints important to the history of the...