From the Publisher People today are looking for deeper spiritual connections, for ways to get closer to God. Saintly Advice offers more than one hundred intercessory prayers to specific patron saints to whom readers can appeal to add greater meaning to their lives. Adorned with exquisite black-and-white and color engravings, Saintly Advice explains why people pray to patron saints and then offers prayers of supplication and guidance. Organized by the saints' patronages and specialties, Saintly Advice provides short biographies of the saints, explains the basis for their patronages, and includes a calendar of feast days for the entire year. Original, beautifully written prayers to each saint address life's everyday challenges, from arthritis to widowhood. Saintly Advice offers readers a powerful way of communicating with God by sharing hopes, dreams, worries, and desires with the most blessed in the Christian community - the saints who've gone before.