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.
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.
He explained that he is also a pilot and has read some of Saint-Exupery's books in the original French.
Mr. Martinez Fructuoso, 65, who inherited Ms. Suncin's house in Grasse as well as the right to half the royalties from Saint-Exupery's books, said that the trunk where he found the manuscript of "The Memoir of the Rose" also contained many love letters from her husband that underlined the intensity of his feelings for her.
I was inside the bookstore one day, and I thought that it was like a little saint that protects the books.
Wired magazine lists him as its patron saint, a flurry of books with titles like "Digital McLuhan" present him in a new light, and a generation grappling with the transforming effects of cyberspace, cell phones and virtual reality has begun to see him not as out of date but ahead of his time.
The volume closes with a calendar of all the saints' days, something garden books no longer include.
