Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints
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- Synopsis
- Saints are not born, they are made. And many, asSaints Behaving Badlyreveals, 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 wit...
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780385519977
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780385517201
- Publisher:
- Doubleday Religious Pub Group
- Date of Addition:
- 08/12/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Thomas J. Craughwell
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Humor
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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