Christ in the Margins

Book excerpt: Now in deluxe paperback edition a celebrated artist teams with a bestselling author to reveal the face of Christ that shines in the most unlikely places! Christ in the Margins features forty Robert Lentz icons and biographies of Christ figures who confound the status quo. Together with Edwina Gateley's stories of men and women who have led her to experience the Christ who lives in all of us, particularly those on the margins, it is both profoundly spiritually and spiritually profound. The prophets, outcasts, holy fools, visionaries and mystics, artists and poets featured in include Christ the Good Shepherd, Christ Sophia, the Apache Christ, the Christ of Maryknoll, St. Martin De Porres, Damien the Leper, St. Vincent De Paul, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Katherine Drexel, Blessed Julian of Norwich, Mychal Judge, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, and many others.