| Brief Description: | Travel through 2,000 years since the time of Christ and across three
continents to experience the lives and deaths of some extraordinary
individuals, on this three-tape set from The Learning Channel. Witness
the rise of martyrdom from Stephen, the first martyr, to Joan of Arc
and Thomas Becket in Volume 1, The Blood of the Martyrs (50 mins.).
Meet Catherine of Sienna, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Augustine and
Saint Thomas Aquinas on Volume II, Hermits, Monks and Madmen (50
mins.). On Volume III, Mystics and Miracles, follow the lives and
deaths of those who have known the divine, travel to a French
monastery where theologians and academics have been seeking answers to
the questions of sainthood for 300 years, and go behind the scenes at
the Vatican to peek inside the politics of sainthood on "The Road to
Sainthood" (100 mins.). |
