by Thomas J. Craughwell
Excellent "random" find at the library!This tells the stories behind a score of saints "before they were saints".It helps put a little more human flesh onto the "saintly" pictures we grew up with - we get to hear about the murderous deeds of some Ukrainian/Viking monarchs; the financial cheats and s...
Not exactly as juicy or exciting as the title suggests. It really was just ok. It was something I picked up from the New Books shelf at my local public library. I wrote a note about it in my personal blog: [http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/06/booknote-saints-behaving-badly.html]