I had hoped this would be a handy way to quickly access maps similar to those in the larger Holman Atlas, which has the best maps of any Bible Atlas I own. Unfortunately, as the other reviewer said, the images in this resource are low resolution, so much so that it's sometimes hard to read place names on maps. I think this would be a great resource if only Faithlife would increase the resolution of the images. It may be a matter of negotiating the right contract, but it is possible to get higher resolution maps from this publisher. I know by comparing the Holman Atlas images between Verbum and the other Bible software I use: the other has more than double the resolution. Low resolution maps are a fatal flaw in an atlas.

This is a great classic in my favorite translation. However, it lacks paragraph numbers, which makes it very difficult to find passages cited. So it's basically useful only for textual searches and reading. Searching for references to Scripture is not possible because the citations aren't marked.

While this may be useful for finding passages by topic, it is not an authentic work of St. Anthony. His only authentic works are his Sermons for Sundays, Feast Day Sermons, and Marian Sermons. These have been translated by Paul Spilsbury and published by Edizioni Messaggero Padova.

While this is a very edifying work, it has been known for well over a century that it was not written by St. Bonaventure. For this reason, it was excluded from the critical edition of his Opera Omnia at that time. The author has now been identified as Giovanni de' Cauli, a Franciscan living in San Gimignano who wrote it about the year 1350. He refers to the distance of his friary from the gate in chapter 77 to explain how far away Mount Calvary was. This identification is in the title of the critical edition, "Iohannis de Caulibus Meditaciones uite Christi, olim S. Bonauenturo attributae" (CCM 153). I give it five stars for the content, which has edified Christians for centuries, minus two for the false attribution, which will make unsuspecting students and scholars cite it as St. Bonaventure.