Read stories of saints from the Americas! The Catholic Church’s strength and vigor is nowhere more visible than in North and South America, where the Catholic faith claims the allegiance of hundreds of millions of people. Saints of the Americas features stories of saints told through “conversations” between the authors and the saints. These martyrs and monks, laypeople and clergy, mystics and activists are honored for their holiness and remembered for their prodigious accomplishments in evangelizing two continents while bringing a renewed vitality to the ancient church. Saints of the Americas book features stories of saints from fifteen countries in the Western Hemisphere—from the nations of Central and South America and the Caribbean to the United States and Canada. Included are the stories of saints such as Salvadoran martyr Oscar Romero, Venezuelan physician and healer José Gregorio Hernández, Costa Rican social activist María Romero Meneses, and many others. The stories of these American saints celebrate the emerging Catholicism of the Americas, a richly diverse faith unified in its dynamic American identity. Also available in Spanish

Arturo Pérez-Rodríguez es sacerdote originario de Chicago y antiguo Presidente del Instituto de Liturgia Hispana. Autor y conferencista nacional en temas de liturgia y espiritualidad hispana. Actualmente es Director del ministerio a los encarcelados y administrador de la parroquia de La Asunción, en Chicago.

Arturo Pérez-Rodríguez is a Chicago priest and a well-known author and speaker on matters of Hispanic spirituality and popular religion in the Catholic context. He is the author of Primero Dios and Praying with the Saints, which is part of the Somos Católicos series from Loyola Press.

Miguel Arias es editor de las publicaciones en español de Loyola Press. Como tal, ha sobresalido por su labor de escritor, traductor y editor de libros de espiritualidad y liturgia. Es parte de la facultad del Instituto Cultural del Medio Oeste, el Instituto Tepeyac y el Instituto Hispano de Liturgia de Chicago. Autor de La Navidad Hispana y Palabra, vida y fe. Junot con su esposa Alma radica en Chicago.

Miguel Arias is the senior editor of Spanish media at Loyola Press. He holds a master's degree in liturgy and is part of the faculty of the Instituto Cultural de Liderazgo en el Medio Oeste, Tepeyac Insititute in El Paso, and the Hispanic Liturgy Institute in Chicago.