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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

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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

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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