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eBook Description: That special date, the most important day in all the year--your birthdat--just happens to be the authorized, worldwide, time-honored Feast of an honest-to-God Saint--or even a heavenly host of Saints! Never mind astrology. Forget numerology. The true significance of your date of birth is obviously determined by the character of your Patron Saints--those heroes and heroines of the Faith whose fabulous lives and miraculous deeds this blessed book reveals, in convenient calendar format! But The Birthday Book of Saints is not merely a compulsively accurate, fanatically researched, up-to-date, day-by-day listing of their Feasts. It also religiously details each Saint's particular Patronage: his or her divinely assigned, eternal interest in such earthly matters as jobs, hobbies, crises, medical problems, neuroses, and lifestyles. (Everyone knows that Saint Patrick looks after the Irish, and Saint Valentine loves lovers--but wait till you meet Saint Germaine Cousine, Patron Saint of unattractive people, and Saint Eugene de Mazenod, the Patron of dysfunctional families.) And they're all out there just waiting to help you. But wait. There's more! The Birthday Book of Saints also reveals, at no additional cost, your Other Birthday--the annual Feast of your Name Saint, on which you are entitled to throw yourself a huge party, during which the unpleasant subject of age never comes up! Profusely illustrated with fine art, kitsch, icons, photographs, movie stills, and drawings, The Birthday Book of Saints arrives just in time to provide spiritual nourishment for the faithful and faithless in the new millennium.

eBook Publisher: Random House, Inc./Villard
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2003

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concur that the surgery was performed by none other than His Virgin Mother Mary, and that this ritual bloodshed was the first of her Seven Sorrows. In after years the Divine Foreskin was a much-prized relic, once bestowed by Angels upon the Emperor Charlemagne; a reliquary jar said to contain it still is venerated at a parish church in Calcata, Italy.

the feast of saint clarus

Obscure French prelate, 660

Patron of the shortsighted; invoked against myopia * (emblem: abbot appeasing a flooded river)

This humble French monk was so holy that he was appointed spiritual director of the convent in which his own widowed mother was a nun. Despite the many miracles attributed to Clarus, it is because of his name, which in Latin means "clear," that his heavenly aid is sought by those whose vision isn't.

the feast of saint odilo

Homely but zealous abbot of Cluny, 1049

Invoked against jaundice * (emblem: monk, a skull at his feet)

An authority both spiritual and temporal, Odilo instituted the Feast of All Souls-a sort of Unknown Saints' Day-as well as the Truce of God, by which local warlords were obliged to refrain from hostilities on weekends. Odilo was especially devoted to the Blessed Virgin, through whose intercession he had, as an infant, been cured of an excess of the bile pigment bilirubin.

Also: The Feast of Saint Peter of Atroa, among whose gifts was the ability to make himself invisible, 837; and Saint Telemachus, who leapt into the arena and put an end to gladiatorial contests, c. 400.

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adelard

Retired French politician-abbot, 827

Patron of gardeners * (emblem: spade)

Like his cousin Charlemagne, the monk Adelard (aka Adalhard) was a grandson of Charles "the Hammer of God" Martel-that is, a member of proto-French royalty. Renowned for his learning-he wrote in Latin, French, and German-he was often summoned to the Carolingian court as an adviser, and invariably banished for the advice he gave. His final exile was to Corbie, in far-off Normandy, where he enthusiastically took up horticulture.

the feast of saint basil the great

Patriarch, Doctor of the Church, 379

Patron of hospital administrators, Russia * (emblem: a heavenly hand offering him a pen)

Born in present-day Turkey into a very religious family-both his parents, two of his brothers, and a sister are canonized Catholic Saints-Basil studied in Athens, where he was a classmate of the future infamous emperor Julian the Apostate. As bishop of Caesarea, Basil was a fearless foe of imperial heresy and a tireless CEO, establishing and administering a vast complex of churches, hospitals, and orphanages known as Basiliad. The rule he created for monastic living is followed to this day in the Eastern (Russian and Greek Orthodox) Church, and he is still highly revered in Russia; his personality-generous, eloquent, shrewd, and pigheaded-appeals to the Russian soul.

the feast of saint gregory of nazianzen

Son of a bishop, Doctor of the Church, 390

Patron of fruitfulness, poets * (emblem: book)

An eloquent preacher and brilliant theologian, Gregory was a most reluctant administrator, and prone to nervous breakdowns. Of a shy and retiring nature-he wanted to be a monk-he was constantly conscripted by his boyhood friend Saint Basil into the battle against the Arian heresy. In retirement he...