Listen to the saints tell their inspiring stories of faith and perseverance. 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 the stories of thirty great heroes of this New World faith, 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.Fifteen countries in the Western Hemisphere are represented in this book - from the nations of Central and South America and the Caribbean to the United States and Canada. Included are the stories of Salvadoran martyr Oscar Romero, Venezuelan physician and healer Jose Gregorio Hernandez, Costa Rican social activist Maria 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.