Steve Bell's book series, Pilgrim Year, has taken home second place for "2019 New Book Series of the Year."

The awards were handed out last week at the North American Catholic Press Book Awards in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Pilgrim Year is a series of reflections spread throughout seven books that follows the seven major seasons of the liturgical calendar.

Bell, who is not Catholic and grew up the son of a Baptist prison chaplain, says at a young age he discovered the liturgical calendar.

It's something that he found deep meaning in as he grew older. He began to blog a journey through the liturgical year a few years ago, and that's when a Catholic publishing house reached out to him to turn the reflections into a book series.

In an online post, Bell says he has no problem coming in second place. Especially when you consider the fact that first place was "a new collection of spiritual classics including writings from St. Terese of Lisieux, Thomas a Kempis, St. Augustine, St. Teresa of Avila and Frances de Sales."