Saints and Their Symbols - Recognizing Saints in Art and in Popular Images

"Saints and their Symbols" is a guide for recognizing and understanding the saints, explaining why so many of the saints appear in images with Jesus and the Virgin Mary yet remain unnamed, which symbols are associated with each saint, and what their roles were in Christian salvation. With 265 full-color images and biographical information about the saints, this is a work of popular religious culture and anthropology.Liturgical Press

About the author

Fernando Lanzi and Gioia M.G. Lanzi are founders and directors of the Centro Studi Per La Cultura Popolare, a cultural association that studies and researches the expression of the sacred and the Christian faith. Fernando is a member of the Commission on Sacred Art and the Institute for the History of the Church of the Diocese of Bologna and Gioia is a professor of Sacred Art at the Phylosophical Dominican Stadium in Bologna.

Product details

• Authors: Fernando Lanzi, Gioia Lanzi
• Assisted by: Ermanno Leso (Illustration), Matthew J O'Connell (Translation), Matthew J. O'Connell (Translation)
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9780814629703
• ISBN: 978-0-8146-2970-3
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 249 mm x 309 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 1728 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity