Married Saints

The book Married Saints written by Selden P. Delany, which was first published in 1935, depicts the holiness left by men and women who committed themselves to the sacrament of matrimony. Delany refutes any existing conceptions that Christian sanctity is properly reserved for persons pledged to celibacy, starting with the simple yet life-changing insight that saints are those who seek to submit themselves to God's will in all situations. Married Saints provides a comprehensive picture of the continuous thread of seemingly ordinary lives transformed special by the embrace of faith, hope, and love through nineteen short biographies.

"Christian marriage is the union before God of two souls who wish, by the grace of the sacrament to perfect one another, to love one another, and to give children to the Church and saints to heaven." –Selden P. Delany