The Swiss Protestant theologian’s most significant work is a book that illuminates the saints in all their revolutionary force.

What do the saints still have to say to us today? The theologian Walter Nigg attempts to find an answer to this question beyond all religious trappings. Detailing the lives of eleven great saints, he shows how they had to fight dark forces within themselves. And how they nonetheless became role models and exceptional individuals.

St. Francis of Assisi
St. Joan of Arc
St. Nicholas of Flue
St. Catherine of Genoa
St. Teresa of Avila
St. John of the Cross
St. Francis de Sales
St. Joseph of Cupertino
Gerhard Tersteegen
St. John Vianney (cure of Ars)
St. Therese of Lisieux

»An unknown world emerges when one encounters the saints. New dimensions leave the reader absolutely astonished, dimensions that human language simply cannot describe. The direct relationship with the divine, the religious profundity of the saints' wisdom and their subtle understanding of the soul are almost without parallel in the history of spirituality. In order to gain access to them, one requires an inner disposition to experience new realities that do not coincide with one's own, realities that consequently cannot be judged in any ordinary terms.« Walter Nigg