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Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints
Saints Behaving Badly The Cutthroats Crooks Trollops Con Men and DevilWorshippers Who Became Saints
Author: Thomas J. Craughwell
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 twenti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385517201
ISBN-10: 0385517203
Publication Date: 9/19/2006
Pages: 208
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Publisher: DoubleDay
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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I was kind of disappointed, by today's standards, they didn't seem to be that bad, this was written from a Catholic Theologan's point of view, and he was writing about events for the most part over 400 years old, but he seems to mistake a lot of the ancient writings for objective, factual accounts.


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