Saints Behaving Badly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints Behaving Badly write by Thomas J. Craughwell. This book was released on 2006. Saints Behaving Badly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Takes a close-up look at thirty-two holy men and women who took a less than saintly path on their road to sainthood, profiling St. Olga, St. Mary of Egypt, Thomas … Becket, and other sinners-turned-saint. 20,000 first printing.
Saints Behaving Badly
Saints Behaving Badly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints Behaving Badly write by Thomas J. Craughwell. This book was released on 2006-09-19. Saints Behaving Badly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From thieves and extortionists to mass murderers and warmongers, up-close and embarrassingly personal snapshots of those sanctified people with the most unsaintly pasts in the history of Christianity. 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-saints. 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), Saints Behaving Badly will entertain, inform, and even inspire Catholic readers across America.
Loyola Kids Book of Saints
Loyola Kids Book of Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Loyola Kids Book of Saints write by Amy Welborn. This book was released on 2011-09-29. Loyola Kids Book of Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book of SaintsWho are the saints, why are the lives of saints important for children, and what can children learn from lives and actions? In Loyola Kids Book of Saints, the first in the Loyola Kids series, best-selling author Amy Welborn answers these questions with exciting and inspiring stories, real-life applications, and important information about these heroes of the church. This inspiring collection of saints’ stories explains how saints become saints, why we honor them, and how they help us even today. Featuring more than sixty saints from throughout history and from all over the world, Loyola Kids Book of Saints introduces children to these wonderful role models and heroes of the church. Ages 8-12.
Patron Saints
Patron Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patron Saints write by Thomas J Craughwell. This book was released on 2011-09-16. Patron Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Make the saints part of your everyday life. Who would have guessed that there is a patron saint for astronauts, or zookeepers, or the internet? You know that you can pray to St. Blaise to help protect you from a sore throat, but which saint will protect you from a snakebite or from being struck by lightning? With hundreds of listings of patron saints, you'll find heavenly helpers for just about anything and everything. You'll meet the patron saints of bankers, bakers, florists, plumbers, and highway construction crews. You'll learn which saint to invoke against headache, toothache, and appendicitis. And you'll discover that there are patron saints to save the whales, for the right-to-life movement, environmentalists, and IT workers. And there are several patron saints for stressed wives and mothers. Each entry explains why the saint is patron of whatever he or she is patron of, includes a summary of the saint's life, and highlights unusual or little-known facts about the saint. The book also includes an index for easy reference.
The Saints
The Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Saints write by Lex Thomas. This book was released on 2014-07-08. The Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power.
