Book
Saints behaving badly : the cutthroats, crooks, trollops, con men, and devil-worshippers who became saints
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Doubleday, c2006.
Physical Description
xii, 190 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents
- St. Matthew, extortionist
- St. Dismas, thief
- St. Callixtus, embezzler
- St. Hippolytus, antipope
- St. Christopher, servant of the devil
- St. Pelagia, promiscuous actress
- St. Genesius, scoffer
- St. Moses the Ethiopian, cutthroat and gang leader
- St. Fabiola, bigamist
- St. Augustine, heretic and playboy
- St. Alipius, obsessed with blood sports
- St. Patrick, worshipper of false gods
- St. Mary of Egypt, seductress
- St. Columba, warmonger
- St. Olga, mass murderer
- St. Vladimir, fratricide, rapist, and practitioner of human sacrifice
- St. Olaf, Viking
- St. Thomas Becket, hedonist
- St. Francis of Assisi, wastrel
- Blessed Giles of Portugal, Satanist
- St. Margaret of Cortona, rich man's mistress
- Blessed Angela of Foligno, gossip and hedonist
- St. Ignatius of Loyola, egoist
- St. John of God, gambler and drunkard
- St. Camillus de Lellis, cardsharp and con man
- St. Philip Howard, cynic and negligent husband
- St. Peter Claver, dithering novice
- Venerable Matt Talbot, chronic alcoholic.