The Gay Book of Saints

377 Pages Indexed. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page "Kathy, We can't all be saints (thank God) but thanks for trying. Bob Rakoczy." Three hundred sixty-six sketches of actual saints on their designated feast days, written from an alternative, contemporary, and humorous perspective. Not a collection of gay saints, each life is dampy and irreverent, but not sacrilegious, vulgar, or insensitive. There has never been anything like it in print and there should be. Each day includes the saint's traditional or an apt patronage, an appropriate show tune or theme song, a motto, a symbol in art of iconography, and a celebrity's mundane birthday. For example, St. Simeon the Mad gets forty ours of community service time feeding the poor from Judge Judy's Court for stealing bread for the needy. Alex Trebek must endure the sheer stupidity of the Three Stooges on a Jeopardy show. St. Rose of Lima reveals her Twelve Steps to Sainthood. St. Veronica gets advice on cleaning her veil. Collect 300 days indulgence for every time you laugh out loud . a totally contemptible, contemporary source. Parental discretion is advised. If your mother hates it, you'll love it. Is this book for real? No, not really. Take it any way but seriously. …