This book is a collection of brief life sketches of some 400 saints. It presents a panoramic parade of some of the outstanding heroes and heroines of the Catholic Church, who, by their holy lives, untiring labours and sacrifices have, through the centuries, helped to sustain that indestructible marvel. The galaxy of saints presented here includes people from all walks of life-martyrs, popes, priests, abbots, nuns, mystics, thinkers, scholars, educationists, social workers, kings and queens as well as ordinary men and women. Thoroughly revised and painstakingly researched, the book has been appropriately updated to include some of the modern day Saints and Blesseds like Mother Teresa, Padre Pio, Faustina Kowalska, Edith Stein, Damien of Molokai, Pope John XXIII, James Alberione, Frederic Ozanam, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, besides Joseph Vaz, Maria Goretti, Maximilian Kolbe, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Alhponsa Muttathupadathu, Timothy Giaccardo and others.