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A Book of Imperfect Saints A BOOK OF IMPERFECT SAINTS Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. © Owen O‘Sullivan OFM Cap., 2015 CONTENTS Subject Page What is a Saint? 9 Note on Canonization and Beatification 14 January 17 Why did the Roman Empire persecute Christians? 50 January (contd.) 54 February 91 Note on some Martyrdom 97 February (contd.) 101 March 130 April 163 May 228 June 280 July 367 Note on the Chinese Rites 388 July (contd.) 391 August 447 Note on the Just Ruler 532 August (contd.) 537 September 561 Note on Misogynism among Christians 586 September (contd.) 594 October 636 Note on Legend 660 October (contd.) 665 November 725 December 776 Supplement of Irish Saints 843 Explanatory Notes 902 Acknowledgements 905 Index 906 Afterword 914 The Saints, following the Roman Calendar The dates assigned to saints in this book are those on which they are remembered and honoured in the Roman liturgical calendar; it is usually the (reputed) date of their death. 2 January: Saints Basil and Gregory. 7 January: Saint Raymond of Peñafort. 13 January: Saint Hilary of Poitiers. 17 January: Saint Anthony of Egypt. Why did the Roman Empire persecute Christians? 20 January: Pope Saint Fabian. 20 January: Saint Sebastian. 21 January: Saint Agnes. 22 January: Saint Vincent. 24 January: Saint Francis de Sales. 25 January: Conversion of Saint Paul. 26 January: Saints Timothy and Titus. 27 January: Saint Angela Merici. 28 January: Saint Thomas Aquinas. 31 January: Saint John Bosco. 1 February: Saint Brigid. 3 February: Saint Blaise. 3 February: Saint Ansgar. 5 February: Saint Agatha. A Note on some Martyrdom 6 February: Saint Paul Miki and companions, Martyrs of Japan. 8 February: Saint Jerome Emiliani. 8 February: Saint Josephine Bakhita. 10 February: Saint Scholastica. 14 February: Saints Cyril and Methodius. 17 February: Seven Founders of the Servites. 21 February: Saint Peter Damian. 23 February: Saint Polycarp. 4 March: Saint Casimir. 7 March: Saints Perpetua and Felicity. 8 March: Saint John of God. 9 March: Saint Frances of Rome. 17 March: Saint Patrick. 18 March: Saint Cyril of Jerusalem. 19 March: Saint Joseph. 23 March: Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo. 2 April: Saint Francis of Paola. 4 April: Saint Isidore of Seville. 5 April: Saint Vincent Ferrer. 7 April: Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle. 11 April: Saint Stanislaus. 13 April: Pope Saint Martin I. 16 April: Saint Bernadette Soubirous. 21 April: Saint Anselm. 23 April: Saint George. 23 April: Saint Adalbert. 24 April: Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen. 25 April: Saint Mark the Evangelist. 28 April: Saint Peter Chanel 28 April: Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort. 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena. 30 April: Pope Saint Pius V. 1 May: Saint Joseph the Worker. 2 May: Saint Athanasius. 3 May: Saints Philip and James. 5 May: Blessed Edmund Rice. 12 May: Saints Nereus and Achilleus. 12 May: Saint Pancras. 14 May: Saint Matthias, apostle. 17 May: Saint Paschal Baylon. 18 May: Pope Saint John I. 20 May: Saint Bernardine of Siena. 21 May: Saint Cristóbal Magallanes and Companions. 22 May: Saint Rita of Cascia. 25 May: Saint Bede the Venerable. 25 May: Pope Saint Gregory VII. 25 May: Saint Mary Magdalen de Pazzi. 26 May: Saint Philip Neri. 27 May: Saint Augustine of Canterbury. 1 June: Saint Justin. 2 June: Saints Marcellinus and Peter. 3 June: Saints Charles Lwanga and companions, Martyrs of Uganda. 5 June: Saint Boniface. 6 June: Saint Norbert. 9 June: Saint Ephraem of Syria. 11 June: Saint Barnabas. 13 June: Saint Anthony. 19 June: Saint Romuald. 21 June: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. 22 June: Saint Paulinus of Nola. 22 June: Saints John Fisher and Thomas More. 24 June: Birth of John the Baptist. 27 June: Saint Cyril of Alexandria. 28 June: Saint Irenaeus. 29 June: Saints Peter and Paul, apostles. 30 June: The early Martyrs of Rome. 3 July: Saint Thomas, apostle. 4 July: Saint Elizabeth of Portugal. 5 July: Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria. 6 July: Saint Maria Goretti. 9 July: The Martyrs of China. A Note on the Chinese Rites. 11 July: Saint Benedict. 13 July: Saint Henry II. 14 July: Saint Camillus de Lellis. 14 July: Saint Francis Solano. 14 July: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. 15 July: Saint Bonaventure. 16 July: Our Lady of Mount Carmel. 20 July: Saint Apollinaris. 21 July: Saint Lawrence of Brindisi. 22 July: Saint Mary Magdalene. 23 July: Saint Bridget of Sweden. 24 July: Saint Sharbel Makhlouf. 25 July: Saint James, apostle. 26 July: Saints Joachim and Anne. 29 July: Saint Martha. 30 July: Saint Peter Chrysologus. 31 July: Saint Ignatius Loyola. 1 August: Saint Alphonsus Liguori. 2 August: Saint Eusebius of Vercelli. 2 August: Saint Peter Julian Eymard. 4 August: Saint John Vianney. 7 August: Pope Saint Sixtus II. 7 August: Saint Cajetan. 8 August: Saint Dominic. 8 August: Saint Mary Helen McKillop. 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. 10 August: Saint Lawrence. 11 August: Saint Clare of Assisi. 12 August: Saint Jane Frances Fremiot de Chantal. 13 August: Saints Pontianus and Hippolytus. 14 August: Saint Maximilian Kolbe. 16 August: Saint Stephen of Hungary. 19 August: Saint John Eudes. 20 August: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. 21 August: Pope Saint Pius X. 23 August: Saint Rose of Lima. 24 August: Saint Bartholomew. 25 August: Saint Louis IX. A Note on the Just Ruler 25 August: Saint Joseph Calasanz. 27 August: Saint Monica. 28 August: Saint Augustine. 29 August: Passion of Saint John the Baptist. 3 September: Pope Saint Gregory I, the Great. 13 September: Saint John Chrysostom. A Note on Misogynism among Christians. 16 September: Saints Cornelius and Cyprian. 17 September: Saint Robert Bellarmine. 18 September: Saint Joseph of Cupertino. 19 September: Saint Januarius. 20 September: The Martyrs of Korea. 21 September: Saint Matthew the Evangelist. 23 September: Saint Pio of Pietrelcina. 26 September: Saints Cosmas and Damian. 27 September: Saint Vincent de Paul. 28 September: Saint Wenceslaus. 28 September: Saint Lorenzo Ruiz. 29 September: Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. 30 September: Saint Jerome. 1 October: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. 2 October: Guardian Angels. 4 October: Saint Francis of Assisi. 6 October: Saint Bruno. 9 October: Saint Denis. A Note on Legend 9 October: Saint John Leonardi. 9 October: Blessed John Henry Newman. 14 October: Pope Saint Callistus I. 15 October: Saint Teresa of Ávila. 16 October: Saint Hedwig. 16 October: Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. 17 October: Saint Ignatius of Antioch. 18 October: Saint Luke the Evangelist. 19 October: Saints John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues and Companions. 19 October: Saint Paul of the Cross. 19 October: Saint Peter of Alcántara. 23 October: Saint John of Capestrano. 24 October: Saint Anthony Mary Claret. 28 October: Saints Simon and Jude, apostles. 3 November: Saint Martin de Porres. 4 November: Saint Charles Borromeo. 6 November: All the Saints of Ireland. 10 November: Pope Saint Leo the Great. 11 November: Saint Martin of Tours. 12 November: Saint Josaphat. 15 November: Saint Albert the Great. 16 November: Saint Margaret of Scotland. 16 November: Saint Gertrude. 17 November: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. 22 November: Saint Cecilia. 23 November: Saint Columban. 23 November: Saint Clement of Rome. 24 November: The Martyrs of Viet-Nam: Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and his companions. 25 November: Saint Catherine of Alexandria. 30 November: Saint Andrew, apostle. 3 December: Saint Francis Xavier. 4 December: Saint John of Damascus 6 December: Saint Nicholas. 7 December: Saint Ambrose. 9 December: Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. 11 December: Pope Saint Damasus I. 13 December: Saint Lucy. 14 December: Saint John of the Cross. 21 December: Saint Peter Canisius. 23 December: Saint John of Kanty. 26 December: Saint Stephen. 27 December: Saint John the Evangelist. 28 December: The Holy Innocents. 29 December: Saint Thomas Becket. 31 December: Pope Saint Sylvester I. Explanatory Notes Acknowledgements Index Afterword What is a Saint? ‗When people write the lives of the saints, they usually write one long lie. They should write everything about them: their repugnance, their difficulties, the struggles they had to keep themselves holy, even their falls and faults. Instead, far too often they write only about their virtues, as though they were faultless and free from the effects of original sin.‘ (1) Saint Teresa of Ávila thought likewise, ‗When they say someone is a saint, you can be sure they are talking nonsense!‘ (2) Think, too, of the French saying about a liar, ‗He lies like a second nocturn.‘ The second nocturn was part of the Office of Readings (or Matins), in which the life of a saint was usually included. ‗Saints are… conduits to holiness, who can be read at different times by different people…. They are not flawless paragons of lifeless virtue; they are the stuff of story-telling because they lived passionately the muck and mire of human existence.‘ (3) Like every other human being, they are bundles of contradictions. That is not a problem: Saint Thomas Aquinas said that only the devil is truly consistent, and Gandhi replied to a critic, saying, ‗Don‘t expect me to be consistent, but do insist that I be honest.‘ And he also said, ‗Truth is my God.‘ One thing we rarely hear of in the lives of the saints, or of Jesus, is humour. It is as if we thought it belittled or trivialized them. And yet I recall a Jewish acquaintance saying he could recognize Jesus as Jewish because of his humour. The saints - some of them anyway - smiled and laughed. One day, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina said to his confrères in community, ‗Three things are utterly pointless: washing the face of a donkey, pouring water into the sea – and preaching to priests and religious!‘ We want the saints to be perfect. But they weren‘t; they were human, and that means being limited, and also sometimes sinful.
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