Gemma Galgani was the first saint living in the 20th Century to be canonised - and is a wonderful saint for the 21st century Christian to contemplate and emulate.
Born in 1878, she died in 1903 a few months before her 25th birthday, and she was canonised in 1940.
The reason I think that she is a great saint for us to cultivate a devotion to, is that she exemplified so many facets of the Christian life that are currently unfashionable. She was a stigmatic, she saw and talked with her Guardian Angel, she embraced her suffering, and indeed sought additional mortification, she was humble and obedient.
All this and much more about her life is made clear in this 60 page biography by John-Paul Kirkham, which takes us through her life chronologically, with quotations from the saint at the start and end of each chapter.
Unfortunately, this is one of those CTS booklets that really needed (better) editing. Intrusive apostrophes, capitalisation and the hyphenating of random words, along with syntactical and other grammatical errors combine to distract the reader repeatedly from the text.
Nonetheless, it is well worth reading, and comes highly recommended.