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Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 270.0922
EAN: 9780385517201
ISBN: 0385517203
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: September 19, 2006
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Studio: Doubleday
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Editorial Review:
Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on the road to sainthood.In nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings about the lives of the saints, authors tended to go out of their way to sanitize their stories, often glossing over the more embarrassing cases with phrases such as, “he/she was once a great sinner.” In the early centuries of the Church and throughout the Middle Ages, however, writers took a more candid and spirited approach to portraying the saints. Exploring sources from a wide range of periods and places, Thomas Craughwell discovered a veritable rogues gallery of sinners-turned-saint. There’s St. Olga, who unleashed a bloodbath on her husband’s assassins; St. Mary of Egypt, who trolled the streets looking for new sexual conquests; and Thomas Becket, who despite his vast riches refused to give his cloak to a man freezing to death in the street. Written with wit and respect (each profile ends with what inspired the saint to give up his or her wicked ways) and illustrated with amusing caricatures, Saints Behaving Badly will entertain, inform, and even inspire Catholic readers across America.
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Rating:  - Fun and Easy to Read
Wow this is a book that was hard to put down. Enjoyed learning a bit of history and the lives of the saints. I truely believe now that there is hope for us all. Great read!
Rating:  - Entertaining read
Oh my!! Maybe there is hope for all of us. Some of the lives of these saints before they "saw the light" are horrible. Easy read with fun information.
Rating: - A Neat Little Book about Saints
This is wonderfully small, concise book about human beings who stumbled in life then redeemed themselves. Few of us will ever accomplish or achieve such a feat. I like the back stories and the interesting way in which the author kept interesting yet short.
Rating:  - Boring.
I was disappointed in this book in that it covers virtually unknown and/or extremely obscure Saints of which little is known. Put this book next to your night stand - you'll be asleep before the second page.
Rating: - Hope for All!
If Saints can behave badly, there is hope for all of us!
Like many people, I have always found the lives of the Catholic saints fascinating. If you succumb to this fascination as I do, this is the book for you.
Saints from every walk of life abound - thieves, liars, an extortionist, even a former prostitute. What I really loved, was that as bad and as really human as some of these saints were..at the end they found redemption.
Hope for us all!
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