Author: Alexander Theroux
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: poems, trollops, lollipop
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1992-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1564780066
ISBN-13: 9781564780065

Author: Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
Keywords: saints, men, devil, worshippers, con, crooks, behaving, badly, cutthroats, trollops
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-09-19
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0385517203
ISBN-13: 9780385517201

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