By Jason Boyett
"Boyett's witty, bizarre, and infrequently even clever Pocket courses are facts that the easiest issues do are available in small packages." —Daniel Radosh, writer, Rapture Ready!
We identify our towns, hospitals, and church buildings after them. We flock to shrines bearing their is still. We ask for his or her support after we lose our keys. who're those saints, what made them so holy, and what on the earth are these birds doing on St. Francis's shoulder?
Jason Boyett's Pocket consultant to Sainthood takes an exciting and unflinching examine the fascinating—and fascinatingly weird—lives of the saints. even if you're a Catholic desperately wanting a customer, or a Protestant attempting to determine your cabbie's bobblehead, this can be as shut as you ever come to real holiness. utilize it through learning
- How St. Denis brought his top sermon whereas maintaining his personal decapitated head
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Why either hair shirts and nakedness are mainstays of saintly fashion
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Which saints are the shoppers of bowel problems, serial killers, and different valuable categories
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What is concerned about the canonization procedure, in the event you get so lucky?or martyred
With Pocket consultant to Sainthood, advantage simply acquired an awful lot extra entertaining.
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