{"product_id":"the-birthday-book-of-saints-your-powerful-personal","title":"The Birthday Book of Saints: Your Powerful Personal Patrons for Every Blessed Day of the Year","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat special date the most important day in all the year, your birthday just happens to be the authorized, worldwide, time-honored Feast of an honest-to-God Saintóor even a heavenly host of Saints!Never mind astrology. Forget numerology. The true significance of your date of birth is obviously determined by the character of your Patron Saints those heroes and heroines of the Faith whose fabulous lives and miraculous deeds this blessed book reveals, in convenient calendar format!ButThe Birthday Book of Saints is not merely a compulsively accurate, fanatically researched, up-to-date, day-by-day listing of their Feasts. It also religiously details each Saint's particularPatronage: his or her divinely assigned, eternal interest in such earthly matters as jobs, hobbies, crises, medical problems, neuroses, and lifestyles. (Everyone knows that Saint Patrick looks after the Irish, and Saint Valentine loves lovers--but wait till you meet Saint Germaine Cousine, Patron Saint of unattractive people, and Saint Eugene de Mazenod, the Patron of dysfunctional families.) And theyíre all out there just waiting to help you.But wait. There's more!The Birthday Book of Saints also reveals, at no additional cost, your Other Birthday the annual Feast of your Name Saint, on which you are entitled to throw yourself a huge party, during which the unpleasant subject of age never comes up!Profusely illustrated with fine art, kitsch, icons, photographs, movie stills, and drawings,The Birthday Book of Saints arrives just in time to provide spiritual nourishment for the faithful and faithless in the new millennium. From Library Journal In traditional Catholic religious imagination, members of the community of the redeemed can rely on other members to assist them and to compensate for their shortcomings. This is at the heart of the doctrine of patron saints that forms the basis for this book. The authors provide an engaging if sophomoric romp through each day of the Catholic calendar, which commemorates a saint's \"birthday\" into heaven and thus assigns a saint's feast to virtually every day of the year. National Lampoon editor Kelly and Rogers, also coauthors of Saints Preserve Us! and Who in Hell , have constructed a book in which Animal House meets the Roman martyrology and in which readers are offered a loving, albeit often irreverently reductionist, hagiography. The book may prove to be wildly popular with many Catholics and their middle-aged clergy but will not be as accessible or attractive to those who have not been brought up within the practices of Catholicism. And it certainly is not a book that Catholic schoolteachers should use to inspire devotion to the saints among their young charges. Recommended for Catholic college libraries and for public libraries serving a Catholic clientele. David Fulton, Our Lady of Victories Church, Baptistown, NJCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the Author Sean Kelly left teaching to edit theNational Lampoon. Going from bad to worse, he now writes books (e.g.,Boom Baby Moon) and television shows (e.g., Between the Lions). He lives in Brooklyn, New York, a loyal Canadian exile and practicing ex-Catholic.Rosemary Rogers is the co-author of Saints Preserve Us!,Who in Hell . . . ,How to Be Irish (Even If You Already Are),Boomer Babes, and theHow to Be Irish 2001 Calendar. She lives in Manhattan and always wears a Saint medal. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1January 11. the feast of the circumcisionSince he was born of observant Jews, the newborn Christ Child was, \"after eight days,\" according to the Gospel of Saint Luke, genitally mutilated. Saints Jerome and Bernard concur that the surgery was performed by none other than His Virgin Mother Mary, and that this ritual bloodshed was the first of her Seven Sorrows. In after years the Divine Foreskin was a much-prized relic, once best\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Just Great Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43739846869226,"sku":"003-G-37.94","price":37.94,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/1735\/7290\/products\/517DPBMTWBL.jpg?v=1668578416","url":"https:\/\/justgreatbooks.org\/products\/the-birthday-book-of-saints-your-powerful-personal","provider":"Just Great Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}