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Improbable Hagiographies: St. Josephine Bakhita

March 25, 2021

With this column, the inimitable Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa brings her series of Improbable Hagiographies to a close. It has been an edifying and a delightful ride, and I am grateful to her for agreeing to let the Catholic Herald make the project part of Chapter House. There’s been a bit of a dust-up over

Improbable Hagiographies: St. Mary of Egypt

March 12, 2021

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this piece had a reference that appeared insensitive and inappropriate in light of recent events in the United States which the Catholic Herald deplores in the strongest possible terms. Readers are also cautioned that this series of Improbable Hagiographies offers: Scandalously irreverent and theologically imprecise briefs on heroines of

Improbable Hagiographies: Bl. Villana de’ Botti

March 03, 2021

Cover image by Baldiri CC BY-SA 3.0 Scandalously irreverent and theologically imprecise briefs on heroines of the faith, written by a recovering Protestant agnostic seeker with practically no training and exactly zero filter. Blessed Villana de’ Botti was born in Florence in 1332, to a merchant. She was a good kid, so good in fact,

Improbable Hagiographies: St. Christina the Astonishing

February 18, 2021

Scandalously irreverent and theologically imprecise briefs on heroines of the faith, written by a recovering Protestant agnostic seeker with practically no training and exactly zero filter. David Blaine’s got nothing on Christina The Astonishing. Christina Mirabilis was born in 1150, in Belgium. She was orphaned at the age of 15 and became a farm girl.

Improbable Hagiographies: St. Afra

February 07, 2021

Scandalously irreverent and theologically imprecise briefs on heroines of the faith, written by a recovering Protestant agnostic seeker with practically no training and exactly zero filter. So this week I decided to dig into the story of St. Afra. Born in 305 under the Roman Empire, she was a late convert to Christianity. Originally, her

Improbable Hagiographies: St. Lidwina

January 28, 2021

Scandalously irreverent and theologically imprecise briefs on heroines of the faith, written by a recovering Protestant agnostic seeker with practically no training and exactly zero filter. Remember when we were little and we’d get scraped up from falling off our bikes? And remember how sometimes we’d lose a chunk of skin, and our moms would

Improbable Hagiographies: Sts. Felicity and Perpetua

January 16, 2021

Scandalously irreverent and theologically imprecise briefs on heroines of the faith, written by a recovering Protestant agnostic seeker with practically no training and exactly zero filter. Sometime late last year, someone asked me to write about Saints Perpetua & Felicity. They said they were quintessential pro-life feminist icons, so I was so excited to

Improbable Hagiographies: St Bernadette Soubirous

January 02, 2021

Scandalously irreverent and theologically imprecise briefs on heroines of the faith, written by a recovering Protestant agnostic seeker with practically no training and exactly zero filter. Bernadette Soubirous was born in France on January 7, 1844. She was the oldest of nine children, most of whom passed away either at birth or very early on