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      Afterlives of the Saints

      Stories from the Ends of Faith

      COLIN DICKEY

      U N B R I D L E D B O O K S

      Unbridled Books

      Copyright © 2012 by Colin Dickey

      All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof,

       may not be reproduced in any

       form without permission.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Dickey, Colin.

       Afterlives of the saints / Colin Dickey.

       p. cm.

       Summary: "Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays

       that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of

       Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation,

       the pleasures of castration, "and so forth"— each essay focusing on the story of a

       particular (and particularly strange) saint"—Provided by publisher.

       ISBN 978-1-60953-072-3 (hardback)

       1. Christian saints—Biography—Miscellanea. I. Title.

       BR1710.D53 2012

       270.092'2—dc23

       [B]

       2011046236

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      B O O K D E S I G N B Y S H • C V

      First Printing

      FIG. 1: Scene from the Apocalypse, The Opening of the Fifth and

      Sixth Seals (1511), Albrecht Dürer. Bibliotheque Nationale,

       Paris, France/ Giraudon/ The Bridgeman Art Library

      FIG. 2: Saint Jerome Writing (c.1604), Michelangelo Merisi da

      Caravaggio Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy/ The Bridgeman

       Art Library

      FIG. 3: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–1652), Giovanni

      Lorenzo Bernini Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy/

       Alinari/ The Bridgeman Art Library

      FIG. 4: Flayed Man Holding a Dagger and His Skin from Juan Val

      verde de Amusco's Antomia del Corp Humano (1560),

      artist unknown

      FIG. 5: Detail from The Last Judgment (1537–1541), The Sistine

      Chapel, Michelangelo Buonarroti Vatican Museums and

       Galleries, Vatican City, Italy/ The Bridgeman Art Library

      FIG. 6: "Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank

      you note for the Jap skull he sent her," Life Magazine,

      May 22, 1944 Ralph Crane/ Time & Life Images /

       Getty Images

      FIG. 7: Mary Magdalene with a Night Light (1630–35),

      Georges de la Tour Louvre, Paris, France/ Giraudon/

       The Bridgeman Art Library

      FIG. 8: The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (1520), Sebastiano del

      Piombo Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy/ The Bridgeman

       Art Library

      FIG. 9: Saint Sebastian (1615), Guido Reni © Cheltenham Art

       Gallery & Museums, Gloucestershire, UK/ The Bridge

       man Art Library

      FIG. 10: Temptation of Saint Anthony, from the Isenheim

      Altarpiece (c.1512–16), Matthias Grünewald Musee

       d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France/ Giraudon/ The Bridge

       man Art Library

      FIG. 11: Reliquary statue of Saint Foy (c.980) Church of Saint

       Foy, Conques, France/ The Bridgeman Art Library

      FIG. 12: Statue of Saint Lucy, Saint Roch's Cemetery, New Orleans © Joanna Ebenstein

      For Nicole

       As I continue to follow the marc of history I recount

       for you at one and the same time, and in the muddled

       and confused order in which the e events occurred,

      the holy deeds of the Saints and the way in which

      whole races of people were butchered.—Gregory of Tours

      Sainthood itself is not interesting, only the lives of the saints.E. M. Cioran

      Afterlives of the Saints

      Prologue: The Earth's Rejects

      On May 21, 2011, the entertainer Hezi Dean was hoisted to the top of a specially constructed ten-story pillar in the middle of Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. His goal was to stay there for the next thirty-five hours, in order to outlast the magician David Blaine, who had accomplished a similar feat in Central Park nine years earlier.

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