This book highlights the faith of the Tongan Saints from contact with our first missionaries in 1891 until the centennial commemoration held in Tonga in 1991, with an epilogue that will highlight events until the present. At that centennial commemoration, rain fell upon the Tonga Saints, and so did revelation from the mouth of Apostle Russell M. Nelson. After thanking the congregation for their "great example as Latter-day Saints," he pronounced a blessing upon the local Church members, "that from this island kingdom, faith may radiate through the entire world and affect the lives of people all over the world."

The life of Tonga Toutai Pāletu'a. The son of a minister from the Church of Tonga joins the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He faithfully serves and is the first Tongan to be called as a patriarch, stake president, mission president, and temple president in the kingdom of Tonga.

True stories and legends about the saints.

This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.

L'éditeur indique : "This book explores how Tongan cultural practices conflict with and coexist within Hawaiian society."