Later, in the school library, he found Biggles and Bulldog Drummond, Agatha Christie and the Saint books by Leslie Charteris.
Pope John Paul practiced flagellation and flagellated himself to emulate Jesus Christ's suffering, according to "Why A Saint," a book written by Monsignor Slawomir Oder.
Although it was long regarded as Cuthbert's personal copy of the Gospel, to which there are early references, and so a relic of the saint, the book is now thought to date from shortly after Cuthbert's death.
"He should enter the ranks of the saints with an asterisk," said Kenneth Woodward, author of "Making Saints," a book about the canonization process.
Our saints will not be statesmen and our statesmen will not be saints.If David Brooks were right in saying that Americans don't long for their leaders to be saints, my book and its distinctive test would be unnecessary.
Saakashvili's office is lined with icons of Georgian Orthodox saints and book-shelves containing biographies of Stalin and the Kennedy family.
A century and a half after its publication, Walden has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible.
He became the patron saint of the book.
His latest Rebus book, Saints of the Shadow Bible, is out now.
(Most famously, baobabs were a threat to the small planet in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book "The Little Prince").
