Perpetual calendar of saints

A calendar featuring daily saints has long served as a clear organizational principle for the countless stories, founding myths, and miracle reports that once transformed the entire year into a grand narrative of Western culture. From the vast and varied tradition, Albert Christian Sellner has selected the most touching, entertaining, and spectacular stories, disregarding ecclesiastical or bourgeois etiquette. For the majority, saints are not moralistic apostles of propriety or repressed governesses, but rather "Burning Ones": the crazy, the enlightened, the visionaries, miracle healers, fanatics, those seized by passionate love, rebels against conformity, herd mentality, and hypocrisy. This collection also serves as a useful reference work, a book for reading aloud and for entertainment. An index lists the patronages and characteristics of the saints, enabling their invocation in worldly and spiritual troubles and their identification in art.