Relates how two of the children who saw the Virgin Mary appear at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917 became the youngest people honored as 'blessed' by the Catholic Church as a step on the way to sainthood. Includes a description of the Fatima shrine today, a prayer, and a glossary.

A biography of the Jewish philosopher and convert to Catholicism who was put to death at Auschwitz during World War II and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998.

A biography of the young French girl who lived during the latter part of the nineteenth century and who received apparitions of the Blessed Mother. Includes a description of Lourdes today.

Biography of the woman who was a wife, mother, widow, foundress and member of a religious congregation, and convert to the Catholic faith as well as the first American-born saint.

Immediately before and during World War II, the Navy struggles to establish an air base on Midway Island while trying not to harm the disruptive gooney birds there