Saints Behaving Badly The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints

Name: Saints Behaving Badly The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints
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ISBN: 9780385517201

ISBN-10: 0385517203

ISBN-13: 9780385517201

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Authors: Thomas J. Craughwell

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of several books on Catholic history and American popular culture, including Saints Behaving Badly, The Wisdom of the Popes, and Urban Legends.