Saints and Angels All Around (Winners of the Race) by Gregory J. Wismar
The Biographies Are A Bit Sparse. Published by Concordia Publishing House in 1996. Synopsis: Saints and Angels All Around is a series of short (2-3 pages each) biographies of 36 saints and 4 angels. The book is designed to be a daily devotional so preceding each biography there is a Bible verse and following each there is a short prayer and a suggestions for further prayer. My review: Since I did not read the book the way it was intended (one day at a time for each saint or angel) but instead plowed right through it, I found the book fairly tedious. I found a great number of the biographies to be too short and lacking some historical context (once again, the result of it being a daily devotional rather than a true written history of the saints). The exception was St. Laurence (Lawrence) who stood up to the Roman government with a great sense of humor. Laurence (225-258 AD) was a deacon in the Church of Rome and was told to bring the Roman prefect the wealth of his c...