Saints Who Battled Satan: Seventeen Holy Warriors Who Can Teach You How to Fight the Good Fight and Vanquish Your Ancient Enemy Paperback – November 15, 2015

I have read the saints life's in other books, but these are so unique and inspiring!

I love this book! I have shared it with a few people and ended up buying a second to giveaway. The gentleman was in tears. It gave him so much strength!!

I found this book very interesting. I had hoped for more detail about the interactions between the demons and the saints. Many of summaries were quite good, but some seemed to be not much more than a blurb you would find on the flyleaf of a book. I do think it is worth purchasing, but I would get the Kindle or print version. I would not get the audible version. The narrator does read well, but his interpretation of what a demon would sound like is laughable. It is really quite a shame. For people who believe in the existence of demons, which I imagine would be the majority of purchasers, this is a serious subject. We really are interested in the tactics used by the saints to fight off demonic attacks, and so are not only interested in the lives of the saints, and their pursuit of ho!iness, but also gleaning some helpful advice on ways to combat the devil ourselves. Unfortunately, this reader treats the narration of the demon' s responses and dia!ogue as if he is imitating a wicked character in a children's fairytale. When he is narrating a conversation between a demon and the Curé of Ars for instance, he makes the demon sound like Rumpelstiltskin or a cartoon character. He does this in every chapter, and I found it very insulting. I'm not sure why he made the decision to handle it this way. Either he wants to make sure the audience knows that he doesn't take any of this seriously, and so he turns the demonic speaking parts into a comedy routine, or he wants to make sure none of us take this at all seriously, so he is injecting some humor and levity with his farcical tone of voice and ridiculous accents and sounds. He makes the demons sound ludicrous, and turns all of the demonic encounters into a comedy routine. This is the way I would envision it being read during a late night television comedy skit. If you are a religious person, and have any respect for the saints, stick to the kindle or print version. The narrated version will leave you feeling indignant on behalf of the saints, as if they were a fairytale character like Goldilocks in fear of the three bears, instead of men and women who suffered through difficult lives involving poverty, ill health, censure by the authorities or their fami!ies, as well as ongoing diabolical torment. They deserve a little more respect than they were given here.

This is a fantastic book! After reading it I recommended it to my family. My sister read it and bought like 40 of them for everyone who she works with and all of the Religious Ed teachers at her church! Everyone who has read it has loved it. I highly recommend this book. It helped me see how sneaky Satan is and how he leads me into different sins. This book clearly tells Satan's strategies through the lives of the saints so now I am much better prepared for the spiritual warfare that is always at hand.

I was very intrigued by the autobiographic recollections from the Saints of past centuries to the present in dealing with the devil’s temptations and tricks to make them enter into knowing sin. This book is a primer, learning from the Saints, on the techniques they employed to grow or maintain in holiness.

Wow! Very interesting accounts of 17 saints who encountered Satan and how they overcame him! Helps the everyday Christian learn how to use prayer, scripture and other spiritual tools to fight the good fight! Shows what virtues the saints used to combat temptation! Gives examples through their lives of how the evil one attacks us with these common temptations. Lots of great quotes from the early church fathers and the saints themselves! Great read! Satan is formidable but he can be vanquished.....learn how!

A wonderful historical account including episodes in the life's of Saint Paul, Saint Peter, Saint Benedict and many others who were sorely tempted or continually attacked by the Evil Enemy and how they overcame thru Faith in God, Jesus & The Holy Spirit.I really do not have the vocabulary to describe this volume as it should be described. It was extremely inspirational to me & educational. For the first time I think I was able to clearly see a timeline of the dates different people lived and what was occurring in Roman history AD, after the death of Jesus. I am going to send a copy of this book to All family members as we are all trying to build Catholic Libraries in our homes with which to avail to grandchildren and future generations of family.

I was hesitant at first by seeing its cover although I purchased it anyway and glad that I did it was about our Saints and how they were tormented by you know WHO and yet they stood toe to toe and demonstrated such great strength doing God and Jesus's will. I try to remember this when I am being challenged and or feeling weak. Its a good read!

Satan has done a great job of convincing most of us that he does not exist. Therefore there is no need to believe in God either. The result is a huge number of people in the world who do not realize that the forces of darkness are in a constant campaign to steal their souls. Even science is finding that there must be something other than the brain to explain consciousness. As believers we know that there is a soul which is released at death. The question is: where does the soul go? This book explains quite clearly how others have overcome the forces of darkness to ensure their souls are not captured by them for eternal unhappiness.

This book is an amazing read it truly is it’s one of the most inspirational books out there today for all those of gods army out there it’s something that must be read if your going through spiritual warfare and trials right now I feel for you so much I really do me an my wife have been going through it for years and it’s so so hard to find help even from the most obvious of places like catholic priest, churches etc it’s so difficult because Satan in our time of life is getting away with a lot nowadays he’s blinding people so much that now no ones talking about it any more no ones fighting the battle anymore it’s so hard for us to continue the fight day by day when you feel like there’s no help no support out there and in this ever worsening world of evil it’s a lonely experience but this book reminds you that god is ultimately in control of everything including satan and he is always there for help,support and guidance in theses hard and testing times hearing what these beautiful saints experience and achieved with the help and grace of our Heavenly Father is amazing,thought provoking,encouraging, informative and helpful in somany ways if you need encouragement right now in your spiritual journey then please read this book you will find strength in the words of the life of these saints and hopefully it will restore hope and power in your journey too I really do wish you all the best and god bless you

This was recommended to me, and as I know satan exist, especially now, I was interested to see the saints that went through this creatures torments.

It explains the life of the portrayed saints, but it does not teach a lot about the practical ways to defend against the devil's attacks. Only a few mentions about what to do when confronted by the devil and his schemes.

I read it with one breath, it gave a lot of reassurance that God is always with us and constantly raises from among us great spiritual warriors. I feel so at peace after reading this book, it taught me a lot about the main matters concerning demonic attacks and how to fight a good fight of faith and preservere.