A biography has to include the highs and lows of the subject’s life. Mother Frances X. Cabrini, for instance, often doubted herself, yet was brave enough to cross the Andes by foot to reach Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires.

 

God’s Messenger: The Astounding Achievements of Mother Frances X. Cabrini
This little Italian nun was fierce and adventurous. She traveled from Italy to New York in 1889, and then around the world, to reach Italian immigrants and establish orphanages, schools, and hospitals to their impoverished communities.

Matteo Ricci: Astronomer, mathematician, missionary
Matteo Ricci was a Jesuit priest who traveled from Italy to Portugal, then to India and finally to China in 1582, where he lived out his life contemplating the similarities between Confucianism and Christianity. He was one of the few foreign missionaries allowed into the Chinese countryside and to communicate with the reclusive Emperor Wan-li in Peking. To be released in 2019.