| 单词 | saint |
| 例句 | He’s my favorite saint, patron of desperate cases. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But may the saints forgive me, and I believe they will,” she said, crossing herself, “for I did not take it to her, but brought it here directly.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Why do we ask saints and God for help? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They kneeled between the frescoed walls, where some important-looking saints with blue haloes were standing on tiptoe to avoid foreshortening, and the gay paints of the stained-glass window poured upon their heads. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Does he really think he’s in the right, like he’s some kind of saint, a messiah for the forlorn? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to hear her sainted name cross your decadent lips.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When she realized that Amaranta was dressing the saints in the bedroom she pretended to show the boy the differences in the colors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Venus was the patron saint of Caesar’s clan, and her statue stood inside the temple. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The sun lights him up from behind like a saint, illuminating his hair and the tips of the grass and leaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint,” she said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z What can a man do for a woman at a time like this even if he is a saint? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And I wished that I knew how to pray, because then I could speak to God and maybe He or one of His saints could explain things to me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z If she thought life on a bus was cramped, a boat for eight, including teenage boys who were getting as big as their father, was a test even for a saint. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If I ever asked about it, he’d shrug it off and tell me it was some saint pendant from Holy Cross. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to stay cheerful in the dark. Come spring you’ll be our resident saint once more.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it soon got so that every other day the balmy sheepherder showed up at the church with another pair of tiny shoes for the saint. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I shall see face to face the great saints I have loved all my life.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And you yelled, ‘This age thinks better of a gilded fool, than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school!’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were being made in this conference: the analysis of his nature was proceeding before my eyes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “About a Hindu saint being able to slay a thousand on the battlefield and it not being a sin unless he felt remorse.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They stood before each other in silence, while the saints rejoiced; and John struggled to speak the authoritative, the living word that would conquer the great division between his father and himself. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She prayed to every saint she knew while she listened to men speaking in English and Spanish. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They were wider than a man’s hand with his fingers spread and the fish’s eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We agreed on that, especially the part about me being a saint. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Once she is dead, I will have you three burned as well, as false saints and practitioners of the arts of the Devil.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z As Smith cinched the girth of Woolf’s kangaroo- leather saddle around Seabiscuit’s belly, Marcela stepped forward, clutching a medal of Saint Christopher, patron saint of travelers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you do anything bad,” Úrsula would tell him, “the saints will let me know.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Our own flag is red and has a Union Jack in one corner, although there’s no saint for Canada. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Only a letter bearing news of his return would gladden her, and she would celebrate his homecoming with all the ceremony of a holiday or saint’s festival. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “No, I’m not a saint, Sophie. I’m just another stupid human.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He then introduced the student body president, who welcomed us and told us that our school mascot was a saint. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “I’m not a saint. I have all kinds of faults.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a small table filled with flickering candles and statues of Catholic saints and voodoo gods. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z It was a plain wooden santo with no name, and, contrary to the other carved or plastic saints, it was grotesque. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is that he that hath fed on honeydew? Is that my saintly, sugarcoated brother, projected hero of the first game? The patron saint of jump shots?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed so perfect that word had spread she was a saint. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t care about the saints, but I was fascinated by the castles perched on distant hills, the towns on outcroppings with switchbacks leading up to them, the ruins in the shadows. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Have you heard,” asked Agravaine waggishly, “of a mighty saint called Lancelot?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They said she thought she was some kind of saint—I cringed at that—and that she was better than the rest of us. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The house was ugly, full of cheap furniture and cheaper paintings of horses and saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But here, in this loud, bright place, surrounded by gentiles disguised as saints, I clung to every truth, every doctrine he had given me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Once again I was listening with rapt terror to the lives of the saints and the martyrs, although that wasn’t really what attracted me this time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Or again: “Carolina, go to hell and take the saints and the dichos with you!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yes, a miracle can be performed by a saint," I say. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z This was the greeting always used among the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Being a saint is not a nice thing. The abilities may be useful, yes. But they aren’t worth what happens at the end.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He opens the flask, anoints me, while I seem to faint, with the authentic holy water used on the feet of the holy saint. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I said it the other day when I couldn’t find my science notebook and she told me I was silly for asking a saint to find my stuff. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I did a report on her last year. I bet she’s the saint you pray to if you have shell shock.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It had neither statues of saints or Christ nor an image of the Virgen de Guadalupe, like the church that my family and I attended when we could. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z All the saints came out of their beehives to see them off. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet here, instead of the spiky Gothic then in use, was the lovely old Gaelic minuscule, as neat and round and small as when he had learned it from some ancient saint in dim Dunlothian. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked him for his reaction, he replied, “I don’t care how often people say, ‘You’re a saint.’ Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Turn your mind from those silly stories and think of the lives of the saints. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On the walls hung pictures of saints along with ancient battle shields. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z God and the Blessed Virgin and the saints help a poor ignorant soul trying to do his duty.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Carved from olivewood, a little bigger than a shoe box, it had a tin lid perforated by tiny airholes and inset with the icon of an unrecognizable saint. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Tarry service officially began at eight, but it could begin at any time, whenever the Lord moved one of the saints to enter the church and pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Be assured I will not be far from here, and I promise to come back for Christmas and Easter and your saint’s day. And to see when that front tooth grows in again.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At the suggestion of a blind Christian she was once taken by train to kiss the tombs of saints and martyrs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I based the portrait on the Old Master pictures of saints Mr. Reilly showed me where the holy undead are in a magical garden. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All over the church there was only the sound, more awful than the deepest silence, of the prayers of the saints of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Young lady, pray to God and all the saints and your guardian angels.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z His death, a martyr's honorable one. made him a patron saint of teachers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please, I’m the president of Overthinkers Anonymous. I’m their patron saint.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z For the King, or at least this is how Malory interprets him, was the patron saint of chivalry. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the saints’ statues in the church were covered with purple sheaths. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z So many postcards—from Disneyland, Tijuana, the Golden Gate Bridge—perched among the saints over the fireplaces, in wall crannies, but the boys and the girl were gone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Because if you think someone is a monster and the whole world says he’s a saint, you begin to think that you’re the bad person. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The saint isn’t Santa Lucia because she doesn’t have a little tray in her hands with her eyeballs rolling around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The saint’s face had been rubbed off, but the fingers of his right hand were raised to bless a short, purple, terrifically self- confident-looking mulberry tree. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Yes, we’ll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful river, Gather with the saints at the river That flows by the throne of God. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Ma was trembling something fierce, but she says, “Yes, sir, oh, thank you, sir, you’s the saint folks say you is. It was Jesus hisself what was protecting you from them bullets! Hallelujah!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z When the IED got him in Afghanistan, he became an instant saint in Springfield. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was made into a saint, and fragments of her bones were considered to be sacred relics. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “What do you think happened? He’s a saint. He got martyred.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Ladies and gentlemen, family and friends, saints and sinners, old and young,” the minister started. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Amma says he's one of the few saints both Hindus and Muslims respect. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Do you have a Chinese saint who did the same things as St. George?” the demoness asked with obvious satisfaction. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will walk boldly. We will be saints.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z No one, not even a saint, can live without a sense of personal value. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Alexander after the founding father, Gabriel after the patron saint of diplomats.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They came up from the water, visibly under the power of the Lord, and on the shore the saints awaited them, beating their tambourines. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, as my eyes adjusted to the dimmer light of the room, I made out the plastic statuettes and holy pictures of saints which cluttered the bureau top. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Ah, the heart isn’t in me,” said the saint “I haven’t the heart of a hare. It’s bewitched I am entirely.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The elfin nun from Santo Domingo is crazy about saints, often identifying the holy ones long before the Vatican even contemplates their canonization. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents didn’t expect us to be saints. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We cannot have peasants worshipping false saints, can we?” he asked. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They all think she’s some kind of saint for bringing them potato chips and animal cookies. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “He walks! Praise God and His saints! He walks!” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “And Muslim saints, and saints in lands where they worship God in all sorts of ways.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her father’s last weeks were happy ones under the care of Sister Federica, whose devotion to a bewildering array of saints did not lessen her duty to cleanliness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z An old neon-green hula hoop hung from a wooden peg on the wall, a huge saint’s discarded halo. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “No saint, no angel. Corpus bones, I but delivered a child. Your wife never had a stomach worm.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Are you some kind of saint or something?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Before long, La Madrina initiated Felicia into the elehes and gave her the necklaces of the saints that would protect her from evil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Can you imagine how the most pious king in the history of France would feel about sharing a cart with living, breathing saints? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Walls bore panel after panel, finely wrought, upon which painted images of saints had been set. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I’m telling you, as sure as God made little apples, that if I get up from this table you’ll be calling for your patron saint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As the years went by, we started to venerate that dog proper, like the saint she is. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I pray to Shiva, and also to the god of my forefathers, and to Frida Kahlo, who is the guardian saint of wounded artists. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She didn’t hesitate with her response: it was the tendency of people to assume that she and Luma must be saints. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He had heard it everywhere, in prayer and in daily speech, and wherever the saints were gathered, and in the unbelieving streets. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z R.C. ain’t no saint, not by a long shot, but my boy’s white, and the law got no business worrying him ’bout some black boy floated up in the Tallahatchie.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “I already like you. You don’t have to convince me that you’re a saint.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I look away and see more eyes, the statues of the saints watching us from their niches. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “It was the mother was the witch,” said the saint and continued with his story. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I always said she was a little saint,” added Meg, as if there could be no further doubt of it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t have to go to Catholic school and sit in those uncomfortable wooden chair-desks, listening to stories about saints while everyone else is having fun. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Sutues of saints, and of crusaders on their biers, or those pretending to be crusaders; effigies of all kinds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Would the magic of Ultima be stronger than all the powers of the saints and the Holy Mother Church? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Every section has the name of a saint whose picture is painted on a shield stuck on top of a pole by the prefect’s seat. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As the Portuguese navigators explored the coast of Africa they charted and named it, often borrowing names from the local peoples, or using the names of saints. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When she spoke of Pauline Hawthorne, her tone was half the adoration of a schoolgirl for a crush, half the adoration of a devotee for a saint. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her sainted professor is talking about the same science-y facts I did in the carriage. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then he added, “People call me a saint, and I think I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Whereupon suddenly, gnashing his teeth so hard little pieces of porcelain literally spewed from his mouth, the sheriff jumped up and grabbed an armload of her saints and threw them into the holocaust. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z While they bludgeoned his dying body, the saint’s dæmon was borne upward by cherubs and offered a spray of palm, the badge of a martyr. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “My lost saints” had not gone away, nor were they completely lost. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Both Teddy and I were raised on the goofy tunes of Jonathan Richman, who is Mom and Dad’s musical patron saint. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z People have odd reasons for ending up as saints. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, now,” said the saint, sticking his head out of the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, he felt the saints above him—and dust was in his mouth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The grouchy woman looked at my drawings of the Lithuanian coat of arms, Trakai Castle, our patron saint, Casimir, and the stork, the national bird of Lithuania. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He’s known as the saint who keeps athletes safe and healthy, which is exactly what I needed at the time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I think saints all lived before high heels were invented. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Saint Christopher medal shines in the moonlight, but even a saint seems small and powerless against what’s coming. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Joseph had learned something about shipwrecks as a pupil at St. Anthony’s, which was named after the patron saint of shipwrecks and lost things. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I'd wondered why her voice sounded so strange, hoarse and broken, more like a bullfrog than my sainted Momma. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “And so I have never forgotten the torment of my dearest friend. And whenever the Devil leads poor sinners astray with black magic and false saints, I rescue them from their error.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to get out in the rain, but my evil saint exerted some kind of pressure on him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Their house was filled with those protective saint candles you get at the grocery store for a few bucks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The saint hung down on the outside of my uniform and I undid the throat of my tunic, unbuttoned the shirt collar and dropped him in under the shirt. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She would shadow great saints and learn how to do selfless things for the world. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "You think they're saints. Touched by God, doing His work on earth through miracles that mere mortals are not capable of?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She knew that when Catholic children received Confirmation, they were expected to take some saint’s name for a middle name. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jude is my favorite of all the saints,” he says. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Not that he was a saint,” I told them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Chloe asked me, as I worked on copying a saint picture. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They were imbeciles, as well as being the Sassenach, and she herself was a saint She was, she discovered with a change of posture, interested in nothing but her darling boys. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah,” Mary Anne mocked, “the voice of sublime perfection. Was that the godly one? The sainted brother? The perfect son?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As a sign of mourning, the statues of the saints were shrouded in purple robes that the pious ladies of the congregation unpacked and dusted off once a year from a cupboard in the sacristy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jaja of Opobo was no saint, anyway. He sold his people into slavery, and besides, the British won in the end. So much for the defiance.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Candles flickered here and there in front of images of the saints; a faint and distant clatter came from the organ loft, where some repairs were going on; a servant was polishing the brass lectern. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She kissed her fingertips and touched them to the saint’s picture, and she hurried home to write Milton the good news. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z What better saint to protect her own son, in peril on the sea? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “In the forty years I taught at St. Vincent de Paul Academy, I never once encountered an eighteen-year-old saint,” Father Mulrooney declared. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z They sat in the back, rigid and uncomfortable, like sisters of sin, like a living defiance of the drab sanctity of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Miss Handler must have been raised in the bosom of saints. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I think Joan of Arc is a much better saint to pray to.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Here and there, makeshift crosses and pictures of saints added a veneer of Catholicism to indigenous Andean belief. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Confused, the sheepherder invoked Saint Anthony’s aid, even though that saint possessed nowhere near Santa Inez’s power when it came to locating lost pets. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shoot, I know folks who are cranky or stuck up or bold-faced liars and their dogs love ’em like they’re saints or something. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m asking for something now,” he says, as if we’ve just established that he’s a saint who’s never asked a single person for anything. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And if he, good Christian, scion of a striving class, patron saint of the twice as good, could be forever bound, who then could not? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z We stop in front of a picture of a saint with a flickering votive candle in front of it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But only Catholic school kids went to mass the next morning to honor the white- robed saints on the Feast of All Hallows. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The saint put his head out of the hole and examined them suspiciously. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened her eyes and stood straight up; all of the saints surrounded her; Gabriel stood staring, struck rigid as a pillar in the temple. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Everyone was very friendly and understanding and polite and suspicious and afraid, and almost nobody signed, although many began to wonder if Ruby wasn’t perhaps a saint. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They referred to various saint’s days that had significance to members of the family, but none related to me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z His father and mother and all the saints had taught him from his earliest childhood what was the will of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The saint helped himself to a fresh dose of whisky, hummed a few bars of Poteen, Good Luck to Ye, Dear, and glanced at Mother Morlan. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There are many saints, but they are not inexhaustible, so that we find repetitions in the first namings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On the threshing-floor, in the center of the crying, singing saints, John lay astonished beneath the power of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Aquinas Christianized Ad Herennium, partly misunderstood it—misreading “solitude” for “solicitude,” thus accidentally discovering a devotional aspect in it—and became the patron saint of medieval mnemotechnics. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Her box was mainly full of saints and savables—the real problem was convincing people it was worth taking the time to vote. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She sighed tragically, glancing up and to one side like a statue of a saint. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lee had once seen a painting in which a saint of the Church was shown being attacked by assassins. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The calendar noted ferial and ember days, fish days and the feastdays of saints. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to spend my life reading about saints but when I start I wish the rain would last forever. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The saint drank a Mg gulp of his white whisky and spat in the fire. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ah, how his tears ran down, how they blessed his soul!—as he felt himself, out of the darkness, and the fire, and the terrors of death, rising upward to meet the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But this one time each May, on the day of San Isidro, who was the patron saint of all farmers, they opened the small adobe church in town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Middle Ages, thousands of pilgrims traveled to pray in the presence of a saint’s body, or close to the spot where a saint had been martyred. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Crispin, in the name of all the blessed saints, have you ever desired to be anything different from what you are?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, ‘charity, hope, and faith’ are also the names of three martyred Catholic saints. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Good miss, be you an angel or a saint?” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The school’s instructors were priests from the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, an order dedicated to a seventeenth-century French cleric known for his sunniness and kindness who is sometimes called the “gentleman saint.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z His godchildren came from many miles on his saint’s day, and brought him kola nuts and black hens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not suggest, as all the other visiting priests had, that God’s presence dwelled more in St. Agnes, that the iridescent saints on the floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows stopped God from leaving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He has the power of God, the Virgin, and all the saints of the Holy Mother Church behind him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to say that I’m any sort of saint. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z My way of doing this was not exactly the way of the saints, but seems to have worked just as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She had special ceremonies for San Mateo, Matt’s patron saint, and for her own Santa Cecilia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach Ritchey’s tooth became a sort of religious artifact for the team, like the bones or dried innards from a Catholic saint. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Lucy had lots of gay friends online because, as she put it, Dolly Parton is the patron saint of gay men. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Several nurses thought Helen a saint; one nurse even called Ralph a saint too. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z This Sunday was to be a feast day for everyone, but more especially for the twenty-four elders, who were, that day, to be gloriously banqueted at the saints’ expense and labor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z El Jefe was no saint, everyone knew that, but among the bandidos that had been in the National Palace, this one at least was building churches and schools, paying off our debts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This saint tackles difficult situations, matters of life and death. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Gladys had once explained to me how each saint on her bureau had a specialty. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Well, I—I—only wanted to see if the Chinese, if the Chinese, ah, had any saints. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We’ve finished the Mediaeval period, with its reliquaries and elongated saints, and are speeding through the Renaissance, hitting the high points. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I suddenly remember Sophie asking if I was a saint and me replying that I’m just another stupid human. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Joan of Arc is the patron saint of soldiers,” Julie said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “You know, they say that there are countless saints who have nothing to do with church and almost no knowledge of God. But they say God walks with those people without them ever knowing it.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The plan was simple: on election day, we had to get all the saints to the polls. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His black hair, shiny and smooth, parted in the middle of his head by a straight and tired line, had the same artificial appearance as the hair on the saints. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "Does that mean you think he's a saint?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His dark beard and sharp cheekbones made him look like the cards with Jesus and the martyred saints that Abuelita pinned to the wall around her altar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t hold with saints’ days here in New England. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Later on, Úrsula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four hundred pounds of gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “The woman who invented it was a saint.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was definitely not a saint, as my brother had so clearly pointed out. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She was holding up a paper warrior- saint, and he was all intricacies and light. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She was intensely religious and knew the life story of every Catholic saint. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I am going to pray to St. Martin de Porres, the patron saint of mulattoes, for our cause in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why we nicknamed him Santicl6 after the big, jolly American “saint” who brings gifts even to those who don’t believe in Jesus or the three Kings. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their aims were some kind of nationalism, with Gaelic autonomy, and a massacre of the Jews as well, in revenge for a mythical saint called Hugh of Lincoln. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Beau sat still like a saint in the duffel at my feet. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Flannery would take me away from here and deposit me into her fictitious world crawling with self-righteous saints and larger-than-life misfits. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, it startled Carolina, giving her a brief, undefined chill that stayed with her for a minute or sometimes throughout the day, nagging, inarticulate, untouchable, mysterious—perhaps like the aura from her saints. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw a miracle that transcended the miracles of the saints her mother had told her about. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of the saints, his mother and his father, the warnings he had heard from his earliest beginnings, he had sinned with his hands a sin that was hard to forgive. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I don’t understand God at all and even if I’d like to be a saint and have everyone adore me I’d never suck the snot of a leper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She spoke of him at the table as an exceptional being who had renounced all forms of vanity and was on his way to becoming a saint. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Mom was like a saint, friendly to everyone in the neighborhood, including the homeless, the troubled, random drifters. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Praying Mother Washington had not come in until all of the saints were on their knees, and now she stood, the terrible, old, black woman, above his Aunt Florence, helping her to pray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She would not go to her rest until her son, the last of her children, he who would place her in the winding-sheet, should have entered the communion of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The physical remains of a saint — even a fingernail or a lock of hair—were believed to be charged with miraculous powers. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z And John looked back, seeing the saints approach. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z All around her now were only the voices of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He told me to pray to God and all the saints. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Our own flag is red and has a Union Jack in one corner, although there’s no saint for Canada. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Nurse O’Halloran tells my grandmother, Pray to St. Jude, patron saint of desperate cases. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “By all of Heaven’s sacred saints, I pray not.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It hovered over her head, like the golden mottoes over the saints, of the darker ages. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Marry—no we shouldn’t! If you loved me, Jo, I should be a perfect saint, for you could make me anything you like.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Ethan finally stops at a dark, moldy niche holding a statue of a watchful saint that is streaked with years of weather and grime. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It’s a barren landscape, yet perfect; it’s the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusion. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a saint, not by a long shot. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The one real fight Bernabe and Carolina had had in their life together occurred because of the saints. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Painted wooden saints with severe mouths stand alongside plastic plug-in Virgins with sixty-watt bulbs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Tell me, if you can, a sadder irony than that St. Augustine, Florida—a city named for the black African saint who saved Catholicism from heresy—was recently the scene of bloody race riots. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And after his death many years later, he was made a saint. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There were flowers, a forty-ounce Miller, pictures of saints, and pictures of the deceased, with six large candles burning in the form of a cross. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He’s sure St. Jude pulled me through the crisis because he’s the patron saint of desperate cases and I was indeed a desperate case. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Jo March, you are perverse enough to provoke a saint! You don’t intend to make calls in that state, I hope,” cried Amy, surveying her with amazement. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t worship her! We venerate her proper! As the saint she is!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z That’s right, she says, me own teeth, and when I rot in the grave they’ll find me teeth a hundred years from now all white an’ shiny an’ I’ll be declared a saint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I’m not jealous, dear, do your best, only don’t make a saint of him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an ebony statue of a female saint in the comer, and a tureen on an altar crowded with apples and bananas and dishes of offerings I can’t identify. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Why are you all so committed to these children being saints?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Limbo is packed with little black babies flying around and crying for their mothers because they’ll never be admitted to the ineffable presence of Our Lord and the glorious company of saints, martyrs, virgins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It should be noted that this ‘saint’ claims never to have seen the king before, and yet she recognizes him from her highly convenient ‘vision.’ The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The tables are covered in statues of saints, colorful candles, black dolls in fancy dresses, crystal bowls of candy, bottles of perfume, and the shimmery gold and yellow colors that flavor the whole place. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z That means I must be a miracle and I might grow up to be a saint with people celebrating the feast of St. Francis of Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He says he wants to be a saint when he grows up, which is ridiculous because you can’t be a saint till you’re dead. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Since I was born on his day, and as he was the village’s patron saint, I held him for the kin I never had. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “How come you never blame your father for anything? He’s no saint, you know.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Truly, yes, to pray with. It would be pleasing to the saints if one used so fine a rosary as this, instead of wearing it as a vain bijou.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Incense was burning all around the botanica and the shelves were crowded with teas and potions and smaller saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’d take a saint after all to straighten such a mess out.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I was hunted in many places, the merciful saints were kind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The sky above me glows like the ancient patina of saints. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She and the frightful look of the saints in the glow of the nocturnal lamp were the two memories he retained of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But when Felicia returned to Palmas Street with her sacred stones and her tureen, her seashells and the implements of her saint, neither her mother nor her children were there to greet her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, everyone thinks that if you’ve got a disease or a disorder or are sick, you become a saint. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Well, there are so many saints, it’s hard to remember them all. All doing God’s work in different ways.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Each time he passed the mantel he winced, dreading the raised eyebrows of his guests as they viewed the flickering ceramic saints, the salt and pepper shakers designed to resemble Mary and Joseph. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A large chest of polished latoun had saints and angels enamelled in the panels. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Honestly, Hermione, you think all teachers are saints or something,” snapped Ron. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Your father is a saint,” she whispers fiercely. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust was in his nostrils, sharp and terrible, and the feet of the saints, shaking the floor beneath him, raised small clouds of dust that filmed his mouth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Alex felt a wave of guilt for finding a heartfelt discussion about saints to be so stupid. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Over me, to bring me “through,” the saints sang and rejoiced and prayed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The music that filled any town or city he entered was not the music of the saints but another music, infernal, which glorified lust and held righteousness up to scorn. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Then it is saint you are!” he cried, and all about fell to their knees in wonder. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She thanked every saint she knew for her sons’ safe delivery from war. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Past stained glass and statues of saints, at the very end of the room, is an entire high altar chapel removed from its church. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t think that qualifies you as a saint.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “They treat Reagan like he’s a saint,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He lived in a tree and when other saints visited him for dinner they would sit around on branches like birds having a grand time with their water and dry bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Call’s cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I saw a young man, who carried in his body the substance of the saint, stagger, glass-eyed, unconscious from the dark hole, sit down on the curb and vomit between his feet. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think it would take a saint to love God under the circumstances,” Father Mulrooney said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Ah, Crispin, the blessed saints were kind when they guided you to me. For my part, I love meat.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you’re not the bloody saint in the room,” Newt said. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She wasn’t a victim or a snob, a pageant queen or an athlete, a scholar or a saint or any of the other things I’d labeled her over the past few months. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In truth, the soldiers barely looked at me as I passed through an entryway crowned by statues of Mary and Jesus, plus other saints whose names I did not know. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z "Well, it takes a lifetime of miracles to be a saint," he says. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Billington was not among the company of saints, to put it mildly; within six months of arrival he became the first European in America to be tried for sassing the police. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When you make a saint, the saint takes good care of you. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some will say you were saints, martyred for your beliefs. But we will know the truth.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Each entering saint, before he could take part in the service, must commune for a moment alone with the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It asks the saints to help them and to disarm any weapon raised against them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "Well, if that doesn't make them saints, I don't know what they are!" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z And they both looked up as the ambulance raced past them on the avenue on which no creature moved, save for the saints of God behind them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I never knew about anything like that. When my father talks about Dov Baer, he almost makes him out to be a saint.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I feel like one of those saints the Doctorita is always praying to, like the Virgin of Banos in elegant robes and a giant crown who does miracles for desperate people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a cousin who lived in Englewood, plenty of money there but gaudy rich, lots of lawn statuary, half the saints in the Gregorian calendar sticking out of the Ficus benjamina. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z If you were a proper saint you’d twist around here and suck the stuff out of my head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On Monday, he’d find out who the patron saint of patience was. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z There had never been a time when John had not sat watching the saints rejoice with terror in his heart, and wonder. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “The patron saint of community service is asking me when I did something for myself?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “You’re a saint to put up with it, Soph. This is cruel and unusual.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The gilded mosaics of angels, kings, and saints, which decorated the walls and ceilings, only shined at certain times when the sunlight fell through the church windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Then a miracle happens and it’s all because of St. Francis of Assisi, my favorite saint, and Our Lord Himself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You realize, of course, how guilty I feel talking behind Mom’s back. You realize that our mother is a saint,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until late December did they take Male to St. Paul’s Church to be baptized and named Francis after his father’s father and the lovely saint of Assisi. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They Would talk of heroes who had defended the island, of armies and saints who had stopped there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z More precisely: a former mosque, with minaret torn down and Koranic inscriptions plastered over to provide a fresh canvas for the Christian saints that are, even now, being painted on the interior. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As Farmer was leaving, he heard Joe say to another resident, just loudly enough to make Farmer wonder if Joe meant for him to overhear, “That guy’s a saint.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This saint has long hair and wears a red tunic and sandals and wields a huge sword above a disgusting-looking dragon with a tiny human face. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The chain I always notice peeking out from beneath his work shirt carries a patron saint pendant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He was a re lapsed saint, who had fallen into the Pelagian heresy of Celestius, and he believed that the soul was capable of its own salvation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a village in the north of France where peasants were venerating a dog as a saint. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “These,” Michelangelo continued, now speaking to Yehuda and his wife and indicating the children with a sweep of his hand, “are the saints.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’ll be a saint,” he says, a small fire burning in his voice. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z No one, none of the saints in any case, had ever reproached or rebuked his father, or suggested that his life was anything but spotless. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Anyway, either Bram is a saint, or he’s hardcore sucking up to Mom. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She started with this one: “Michelangelo, when we came in, you called us saints. Why?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z No one could remember who had brought that life-sized saint. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z St. Sebastian had been named the patron saint of athletes and soldiers, because he’d been forced to endure extreme physical trials in his life but was able to heal quickly from his injuries. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Lyra. I don’t know why they didn’t give her a good saint’s name.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Patron saint of lost causes. The saint to call on when all hope is gone. The one in charge of miracles.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Bye and bye, when the morning come, when all the saints of God’s are gathering home, we will tell the story of how we overcome and we’ll understand it better bye and bye.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother said the Virgin was the saint of our land, and although there were many other good saints, I loved none as dearly as the Virgin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “But St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes,” Bri replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Whenever you see pictures of saints, men or women, they’re always looking up to heaven where there are clouds filled with little fat angels carrying flowers or harps giving praise. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She had decided to restore Rebeca's corpse, to disguise with paraffin the damage to her face and make a wig for her from the hair of the saints. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Dominating the entire back wall is a colossal, Gothic choir screen carved from marble and adorned with ornate statues of saints, black and gold and imposing, holy. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She was as genuine as a statue of a saint you want to light candles to, steal flowers for, or pray in front of. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Like most saints, he made his living by copying manuscripts and drawing pictures for them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I close my eyes and start singing a song by my namesake—a saint called Kabir. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z John smiled, too, observing with some wonder that a saint of God could laugh. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The painting has the advantage of brilliant color, with a red cloak framing the saint’s ivory-white torso, but the two depictions of his face are equally finished and sensuous. Review: A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Yep, the movies' Sound of Music secular saint was to bare her chest. 10 Pink Panthers at Tiffany's: Farewell to Blake Edwards 2010-12-19T14:10:00Z At the very least, she should be proud of herself for refusing to fade away silently, like a good political "wifey", with the minimum of disruption to her departing hubby's sainted career. Vicky Pryce is not the villain of this piece 2013-03-10T00:06:19Z The strongest piece of writing about him is still the one in Canto XI of Dante’s “Paradiso,” which describes the saint in romantic pursuit of Lady Poverty: . Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In each case, the original likeness was lifted from news media sources, then reproduced exactly and repeatedly, like faces of saints in the Byzantine Catholic churches of his Pittsburgh youth. Art Review: Warhol Shows Open, on World’s Fair and on Jackie Kennedy 2014-04-24T12:00:01Z “They’re saints not because of what they did, especially, but because, in the telling of it, what they did became transparent, and your own life could be seen through it, illuminated.” John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z That brief encounter would set in motion one of the more curious pairings in modern American politics, something approaching the knitting of a sinner and a saint. Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone was a camera-shy Washington Everyman — until impeachment made him a star 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Def Leppard is also considered one of the patron saints of hair metal, a genre still viewed with skepticism by many in the mainstream. It’s time for the critical reappraisal of Def Leppard, whether you like it or not 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Most likely, there will be another saint or poet who will inspire a 3,000-word post that will become another book in his search for enlightenment. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Anglican saints were always hunted to extinction, just like great auks. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z St. Nicholas also is the patron saint of the village. On Christmas Eve in Ukraine, the Church Is Chilly (or Is It?) 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z His people are too flawed to be the pitiable saints some repute them to be. Why Vittorio de Sica is one of Europe’s greatest tragic film-makers 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z But what matters about it now — and surely did when it was new — is its visionary imagery: its swirling clouds, its rapturous saints, the angel-borne host that beams like a high-power flashlight. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z But will Salinger’s appeal survive the passing of the generations that adopted him as their misanthropic saint? Perspective | J.D. Salinger at 100: Is ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ still relevant? 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Believers might pray to a saint candle to ward off evil spirits, protect a pregnancy or summon a miracle. The Ladies of Litchfield Are Back on a New Poster for "Orange Is the New Black" 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z This eco-apocalypse couldn’t persuade even a saint to stop using plastic straws. From New York to Barcelona, a Poet With His Eye on Politics 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z A saint displays these qualities in a consistent and exceptional way. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z There are few saints in any history, and even fewer in a history of warrior culture, which is what American history, Native and otherwise, is built on. Review: ‘The Plains Indians,’ America’s Early Artists, at the Met 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “The Cauliflower” is a brilliant and suitably playful way to ask these questions of gods and saints, not often addressed these days in the modern novel. ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z In terms of content, sometimes there’s not much difference between a painting of Christian saints and a horror film populated with ax murderers or zombies. Review: Jaimie Warren, at American Medium, Mashes Up Freddie Mercury and Saints 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Some say I'm a saint for putting up with it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: After discovering the affair, you’ll discover how strong you truly are 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Far from the doubtless saint of Christian tradition, Rakow allows him a full range of human emotions. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Warner said Swinton “looked a bit like one of those mummified saints who are not meant to be mummified, but have been preserved miraculously because of their sanctity.” The Strange, Still World of Cornelia Parker 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Otherwise no one would have any idea how much of a saint Tom was to put up with me for so long before having me committed to an asylum. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4 1928-1929 (ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden) 2013-01-06T18:30:02Z His tomb is the only medieval English saint’s tomb with the full body buried within it. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z In Catholicism, a shrine houses a relic of a saint, in plain terms, often a body part. A Tourist’s Guide to Catholic New York 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z It could still result in powerful work, like the three near-lifesize figures of Franciscan saints from around 1550 that round out the show. The Art of Della Robbia: From Earth and Water, Pure Beauty 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z They are beautiful and mean, Christian and evil, pampered and cutting, and walk a thin line between sinner and saint. Kristin Chenoweth: 'GCB' is 'not trying to be Shakespeare' 2012-05-04T03:15:05Z Is it heresy to observe that saints are bores? Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Hands pressed together as if in prayer, she made herself a saint of show business. Music Review: In Las Vegas-Style Spectacle, Cher Flaunts Strength, Staying Power and Physique 2014-05-11T04:01:26Z But as the focus of dynamic narratives, saints tend to be as tedious as most monomaniacs. Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Clearly a victim of his parents' narcissism and shortcomings, he's no saint himself, jerking around his own first girlfriend. Jesse Eisenberg vs. Michael Cera: Who's Winning? 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z After trying to diffuse the situation, Jo Jo’s mom gives up and just chugs straight from the bottle of wine, cementing her status as the patron saint of The Bachelor audience. Awkward Hometown Dates Are the Last Hurdle on 'The Bachelor' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Instead there is pleasure in watching Francis seem a saint while mostly he plays the devil. | 'House of Cards': ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix Stars Kevin Spacey 2013-01-31T23:08:08Z In a telling scene early in the film, Maud confides in Amanda that her patron saint is Mary Magdalene, the woman to whom Jesus first revealed himself following his resurrection. How "Saint Maud" turns a feminist lens on body horror and gives its "final girl" autonomy 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Promoted by the crusaders, he became the patron saint of Catalonia, Greece, Lithuania, Russia and many others. Let's raise a glass to multicultural Saint George 2010-04-23T10:11:00Z This fervor finds its campy, gin-soaked mirror image at El Garlochi, a velvet-draped haunt done up entirely in lavish church kitsch: brass candelabras, Madonna shrines, plastic funeral bouquets, oil portraits of weeping saints. 36 Hours in Seville, Spain 2014-04-10T14:19:24Z Persons who are named “saints” are listed in the “canon” as saints and given a special day, called a “feast,” in the Catholic calendar. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z In her rendering More is not a saint but a fanatic, enslaved by an idea, and in defense of an idea, human beings are ultimately expendable. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z As Christianity spread across ancient Egypt, textile weavers began stitching motifs of crosses and portraits of saints on clothing, curtains, bedding and furniture cushions. A Quirky Board Game With Versions Spanning 400 Years 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Now in its second year, this is a celebration of the life of the patron saint of Glasgow, who was also known in Wales and England as St Kentigern. This week's new events 2011-01-08T00:06:36Z The Latin name is still painted amid tiers of haloed saints in murals in the cavernous brick church, which has been largely inaccessible since 1980 on a dusty side path in the Forum. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z Four years later, he reanimated Lincoln’s sainted bones in a novel called “I Am Abraham.” Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Flooded with light and complicated feelings that she never manages to articulate, she brings to mind a saint in religious reverie, her eyes and smile as shining, bright and wide as the world. ‘Lucy in the Sky’ Review: Bad Romance, Astronaut Edition 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z To many visitors today, figures of saints and Bible stories are as arcane as Egyptian gods and myths. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Besides the ring, the thief made off with a book, decorated with silver, that the statue of the saint held in one hand, authorities said. Gold ring stolen from St. Nicholas statue in Italian church 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Advertisement “I did a bit of Romeo and a bit of ‘Boy With a Cart’” — a verse drama about a saint by the 20th-century playwright Christopher Fry — “and I got a scholarship,” he recalled. Brian Bedford, Stage Actor Who Brought the Classics to Life, Dies at 80 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Published in March, “The Benedict Option” draws inspiration from the 6th-century saint who retreated from the Roman Empire to create separate faith-based communities, a prescription Dreher suggests for the like-minded in these morally compromised times. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The late-16th-century painting, valued at $5 million in the museum’s internal database, shows the young saint standing alone in a wild landscape. Complaint Faults Museum Director for Hanging His In-Law’s El Greco 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Astrologers said he would grow up to be a king if his family was careful, or some kind of saint if they weren’t. Art Review | 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art': On the Road With Seekers at the Asia Society 2010-03-18T23:04:00Z The process for being named a saint in the Catholic Church is called “canonization,” the word “canon” meaning an authoritative list. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The Vision Festival, a hand-sewn New York institution now in its 16th year, presents avant-garde jazz as a form of religion, complete with saints and sacraments, a clergy and a congregation. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z Dubbed “bodega,” “sanctuary,” “religious,” prayer,” or “saint” these candles are a common sight in the life of a New Yorker. In murder, prayer and the afterlife: Bodega candles are an ubiquitous and overlooked part of life in New York City 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Of the man himself, whom after 15 years of friendship, he still calls Mr. Martinez, Arellano simply says, “he is a secular saint.” Rueben Martinez, winner of the Innovator's Award at the L.A. Times Book Prizes 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Swank and Jones, in particular, are a very good odd couple, playing saint and sinner, sometimes reversing the roles. Harsh land and raw, maddening emotion test 'The Homesman' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z He was no saint when it came to love. At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Locals shun the girls at St. Margaret, named for the patron saint of pregnant women and housed in a mansion built by a bishop who favored peacocks and fine porcelain. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z The other, smaller one, showing a cluster of kneeling saints, belongs to the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z In prison, he prayed to the Virgin Mercedes, the patron saint of political prisoners, and vowed to name a daughter after her if he ever got out. How two old-school Washington insiders became the cool kids of Trumpism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Schumpeter and several others settled down to distinguished academic careers in the United States, with Schumpeter also enjoying a posthumous renaissance as patron saint of Silicon Valley. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z In Ms. Kristeva’s interpretation, Teresa isn’t “the patron saint of hysteria,” as Freud’s mentor Josef Breuer called her, but the patron saint of passionate pragmatics. ‘Teresa, My Love,’ Julia Kristeva’s Latest Novel 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Either you are a sinner or you are a saint. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Do tell us more about what the saints were really like. Why you're wrong to hate Valentine's Day: a short list of rebuttals 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The two died at the ages of 10 and 9 years old, within three years of the 1917 apparitions, making them the youngest saints of the Church who were not martyrs. Pope canoness Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z And: the saints are the sinners who keep trying. Dance Review: Sally Silvers?s ?Prize Every Time? at Roulette ? Review 2011-10-16T22:07:47Z “I am a saint. I am close to God.” My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The stories of the saints he regarded as preposterous fables invented to hoodwink a gullible and illiterate populace. Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z It also threatens to demolish the mosques themselves if they contain monuments to saints. Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z It welcomes the audience to accept complexity so that characters aren’t just saints or signposts. Hitting the Right Notes When Setting History to Song 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Here, the performance was preceded by a recording of Mr. Eastman singing a solo improvisation on the names of the saints Joan of Arc invoked during her trial. Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Kitchen 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The following day, Dec. 6, is the feast day of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, who’s widely honored throughout Austria. Celebrating ‘Silent Night’ and Christmas in Austria 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The exhibition also contains some biographical comics; one particular one is about a Tibetan saint called Milarepa. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z “Do saints and angels appear to bank presidents? Eat your carrots.” The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z They aren’t really saints, of course, at least no more than the rest of us. J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ is this year’s best book about family 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z In the Catholic Church, however, a “saint” has a more specific meaning: someone who has led a life of “heroic virtue.” Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z "I never was one, even on the basis of an earthly definition of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying." South Africans warm to Mandela movie, critics unimpressed 2013-11-29T11:55:56Z It’s not easy to look at a group of Syrian silver chalices invoking the protection of military saints, for instance, without thinking about the current bloodshed there. Art Review: ?Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition? at the Met 2012-03-15T23:06:56Z This barrage of kitsch is enough to turn any saint in the audience into the old, grouchy Vincent, before he got canonized. Review: Bill Murray Bestows Some Grace on St. Vincent 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z As far as Traube sees it, the reasons to name a football team after the conservative movement’s patron saint are multiple and obvious. Conservative columnist wants to rename Washington’s football team after Ronald Reagan 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Didion, whom Gerwig calls her patron saint, looms large in “Lady Bird.” Perspective | ‘Lady Bird’ makes the case for reframing female stories as epics on a par with ‘male’ genres 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z These saints, plus the paraphernalia of a few others, are conjoined into one all-purpose mechanical multi-saint in Michael Landy's Saints Alive show at the National gallery, where he has spent two years as associate artist. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z Traditionally, artists have given different Christian saints different attributes — costumes or props — to indicate their identity. How two professors transformed the teaching of art history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z That morning, a pink light from the rising sun illuminated the river and distant spires as statues of some three dozen obscure saints and notables gazed down at the bridge. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Inside, 12th-century frescoes of saints, jackals, birds and goats are still visible. On Samos, Aesop’s Fabled Isle, a Mix of Greeks, Migrants and Tourists 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Combining attributes of a Christian saint, African spirit-figure, political monument, and artist’s self-portrait, Elso’s image of Marti was of a ghost on the march, an embodiment of vulnerability as power. Juan Francisco Elso’s Indelible Art of América 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z As the panel went on, it became clear what was on many audience members' minds: Should Serra be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church? Festival of Books: Authors weigh in on Mulholland, Chavez, Serra 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z But what most matters about it now — and surely did when it was new — is its visionary imagery: the swirling clouds, the fainting saints, the angel-borne host that beams like a high-power flashlight. 24 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The saint, wrapped in a black cloak or shroud, floats on the river’s surface, his body lapped by little feathery waves. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “He was basically a saint,” Mr. Haefliger said, “a living saint.” Donation for a Lucerne Opera House Is in Dispute 2011-04-28T21:05:39Z "That is why I say that Jack LaLanne is a saint," he said. Arnold Schwarzenegger praises Jack LaLanne at service 2011-02-02T00:35:52Z Polly is no saint, but she still dreams of a decent life. Review | Laura Lippman’s ‘Sunburn’ is classic noir, with no shortage of sex and violence 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z I did have something in mind, but it was neither saint nor cross. 2010-01-15T21:13:00Z In one convent that we visited in Seville, for example, icons of haloed saints and a crucified Christ hang under ceilings with intricate patterns of inlaid wood. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z According to Irish legend, this tradition was started by St. Patrick after another of Ireland’s patron saints, St. Brigid of Kildare, complained that women were forced to wait too long for men to propose. Leap Day proposals: The story behind the Irish tradition 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z I look down at the basilica dedicated to the saint, then into the valley at the church where Francis and his “Jugglers of God” started the Franciscan order. Finding peace and faith in Assisi 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The portraits of saints, surrounded by images of date trees and improbable fringed curtains, will remain partly unrestored and noticeably eroded. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z The prizes, though, are the South Indian bronze figures of Hindu saints. For Asia Week, Gods, Saints and Flying Heroes 2010-03-18T20:58:00Z Both Holden and Hawkins got superior billing, but this is Alec Guinness's film through and through: his thin, agonised face, as austere as a medieval saint's, burns out of the screen. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z They have discovered another sarcophagus dating to the 4th century in the same church, which they claim contains the saint. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Suddenly, on the umpteenth viewing of this movie, I needed to know if this woman, the saint of the film, got a Christmas present. Can We Talk About the Mom in ‘A Christmas Story’? 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Making out with saints -- black saints at that! Lady Gaga's religion-baiting controversy 2011-04-12T16:01:00Z The patron saint of the personal essay is Joan Didion. This Book of Essays by the Head Writer of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Is Hilarious 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Dos Santos became a nun and died in 2005 at the age of 97, and efforts are underway to make her a saint as well. Pope canoness Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Lelyveld has restored human depth to the Mahatma, the plaster saint, allowing his flawed human readers to feel a little closer to his lofty ideals of nonviolence and universal brotherhood. Books of The Times: Appreciating Gandhi Through His Human Side 2011-03-29T19:55:27Z The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z Amy was a brat; Beth was a saint; Meg barely existed at all, and Jo sure seemed liked she swallowed her dreams and settled. Joy to the world, "Little Women" has come – and the updated classic is a modern marvel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z My most recent book, "A Writing Studies Primer," includes a chapter on gods, goddesses and patron saints of writing. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Finally, a compact and complete triptych of the Madonna and Child with four saints, attributed to Naddo Ceccarelli and made for private devotion, gives a sense of how multipart paintings work. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z The person who put most of them there—the unlikely patron saint of New York as basketball Mecca—was Robert Moses. The City Game? 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z When she goes to church or meets people around town, everybody tells her what a saint she is for taking in these troubled children, she said. Adoptive Families Say It Takes More Than Love 2010-04-16T21:28:00Z The Metropolitan Museum of Art is displaying a feathered triptych with portraits of saints and Bible quotations made in Mexico in the 1500s. ‘Royal Hawaiian Featherwork,’ a Glimpse at Island Splendors 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Like the bones of a saint, the teen star's discarded locks are being collected for a charity auction. Justin Bieber has a teeny haircut ? and fans can grab hold of the offcuts 2011-02-22T10:32:42Z He also read art books, “all within the Western canon—gods, saints, martyrs, angels.” The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The patron saint of stumbling, nerdish outsiders, at large inside Chequers. Helena Bonham Carter on 'witty' David Cameron, 'weirdo' Lars von Trier and why Tim Burton won't watch a romcom 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Marcus is super organized and has the patience of a saint, but beneath the hyper-competent exterior, he struggles to find personal happiness and even to know himself. From ghosts to cannibals, here are the 10 breakout TV performances of the year 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z It was then adopted by the Catholic Church as a time to remember saints. Half a billion on Halloween pet costumes is latest sign of America’s out-of-control consumerism 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The average relic, whether a splinter from the True Cross or a chip of a saint’s skull, was nothing to look it, even hard to see. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z The city of Galveston, Tex., got its name from him, and St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana is a nod in his honor to his patron saint. A picture of persistence in honoring a Spanish hero of the Revolutionary War Most people use the word “saint” to refer to someone who is exceptionally good or “holy.” Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Francis, who with Catherine of Siena is one of Italy’s two patron saints, is a global figure for hundreds of millions of Catholics, and the current pope took his name in homage. In St. Francis’ Hometown, a New Kind of Pilgrim 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z In one of his best performances since “The Pianist,” Mr. Brody plays him as a quietly suffering saint whose anguished gaze tilts toward heaven. Movie Review: ?Detachment,? Starring Adrien Brody, Directed by Tony Kaye 2012-03-15T22:50:47Z But the Japanese author’s physical reaction to the tormented, near-naked saint should be a reminder that even we modern folks are not invulnerable to the sex appeal of gods. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z When David Bowie died on Sunday, he left behind legions of fans who will remember him as the godfather of glam rock and the patron saint of defiant outcasts. Was He Gay, Bisexual or Bowie? Yes 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, traces of saints and their works lurk in unexpected places throughout the city. Weekend Miser: ‘Saints Tour’ Theatrical Walk, in River to River Festival 2012-07-05T18:14:51Z It’s almost a religion among some gardeners, with Stout their patron saint. More vegetables, less work: Lessons from the mother of mulch 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z They have cut, burned and excoriated themselves with no less vigour than medieval saints and penitents. How performance art took over 2012-07-03T17:30:01Z In their twilight, Ronald Reagan became the patron saint of the modern Republican Party, and Nancy his devoted caretaker. On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said no. On AIDS, she said nothing. 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z But Lenny’s despotic machinations are complicated by the fact that he might very well also be a saint, albeit one with a nefarious moral code. A Man Without Qualities: HBO’s “The Young Pope” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Between these two painted panels of the saints is a sculpted, gilded panel done by Niclaus of Haguenau, also in the early 16th century. Discovering the Marvels of the Alsace 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z More important, however, is the extraordinary ease and sumptuousness of her tone, and a hovering, ecstatic quality in her singing that makes her so convincing as both sexual icon and saint. Tha?s ? review 2011-08-19T11:38:44Z Smith, an environmental activist, said the saint of Assisi, who legend says spoke to animals and called the sun "brother" and the moon "sister," was now her guide. Punk "godmother" Patti Smith pays homage to St Francis in Assisi 2012-07-25T16:24:17Z He looks, for all the world, like a saint in an old-master painting, embracing both martyrdom and apotheosis. Review: Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Hamlet,’ Cocooned in an Aura on a London Stage 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Despite modern scholarship’s zeal to tear down saints from their pedestals, Liszt has retained his halo as basically a nice guy. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z “Lots of gangbanging was prominent then, and we were not saints by any means, doing a lot of stupid stuff, but trying our best to stay away from the violence and gang life,” he said. COVID and Black Lives Matter brought an explosion of street art to Seattle. But graffiti was already having a moment 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z “Though, for sure, he’s not a saint to you English people.” The city where Diego Maradona rose from the dead 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, statues shouldn't be raised only to saints and Lloyd George, for all his considerable defects, was no Lucifer. The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George by Roy Hattersley 2010-10-02T13:34:00Z The name is entirely, evocatively on-target: Tillman's faded folk-pop is the sound of a cynical saint on the outside looking in, voice tender and tense with equal parts desperation and resignation. Pearly Gate Music knocks on heaven's door at Neumos on Monday night 2010-07-16T22:56:00Z I’m super annoying to be married to; he’s a saint. ‘I Dream, He Executes’ 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z She worked with an artist friend to design a votive-style prayer candle depicting Mueller as a Catholic saint, with a shimmering silver halo and a suit and tie. Mueller’s report is done. Is there still a point in having a prayer candle with his image on it? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Soon, pilgrims from all over Christendom were journeying to Myra to seek the gifts of protection and healing from the saint, who was said to be especially attentive to children. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z If Onfroy is made a saint, he will join a pantheon that is plenty confused already. The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Now in retirement, he buys and sells the body parts and accessories of saints and other religious figures. Christopher Buckley may not have given up political satire after all 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “People” magazine hailed her as the “patron saint of female empowerment.” Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z He's no saint, but here he's clearly a hero. Daniel Day-Lewis is breathtaking in the majestic film 'Lincoln' 2012-11-07T00:45:04Z It is, in many ways, an anti-hagiography: a collection of voices building the image of not a saint, but a human. Nonfiction Audiobooks to Download This Winter 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z If the saints are prone to excess, those who write about them are perhaps equally so. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z But sometimes, a man who's done bad things has a chance for greatness that saints never dream of. Why is Michael Vick shilling for Nike? 2011-07-06T00:30:00Z The religious refugees who fled afterwards to western Europe carried with them their own private collections of saints' bones, and there was a buoyant market response. The bare bones of belief 2010-07-29T18:00:00Z Various groups – professions, people with a certain illness and even entire nations – will adopt a patron saint. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z The exhibition opens with a gathering of saints, capped by two large, magnificent lime wood carvings by the great Tilman Riemenschneider. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The apartment was given to him by a client from one of the local aristocratic families, he said, and is adorned with flowered wallpapers, dust-encrusted devotionals of saints and a Warhol-style portrait of himself. Telling Fashion’s Fortune 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Mantel made familiar material fresh by seeing it through the eyes of Cromwell, often portrayed as the villain to another adviser of Henry VIII, the sainted Thomas More. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z The lives of the saints, often full of bloody incident, served a variety of purposes, including giving artists permission to paint certain kinds of paintings. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z For instance: “Find a fur-beaked beldronk that finds a saint hard to swallow. According to the label, what did she hold that made her hard to keep down?” Spare Times for Children for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z They represent standard themes like the Passion; the Annunciation; the Nativity; the Coronation and the Assumption of the Virgin; the Holy Trinity; and the martyrdoms of various saints. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Meandering back and forth across the centuries, Dickey argues that the saints are always untimely, “always anachronistic — an occupation from another time that has no real corollary in contemporary life.” “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Look, you’re probably not going to find many saints in the cities of Slaver’s Bay, but if the ghastly mile markers are any indication, these people are especially despicable. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Slicing and Dicing ‘Two Swords’ 2014-04-07T02:00:52Z At one point, she referred to him as "my love," while he deemed her "an old-fashioned saint. You would follow her as you follow Joan of Arc." TCM Fest: Andrews, Plummer reunite for 'Sound of Music's' 50th 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z She embraced doctrines and practices that Protestants had deplored since the Reformation: transubstantiation, the cult of Mary and the saints, the rosary, relics, confession and indulgences. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z In a quandary about how to grow up without diminishing her capacity for wonder, Amélie sets out to become a secular saint, discreetly intruding into the lives of others to turn somber narratives momentarily joyous. The off-kilter charms of 'Amelie,' made musical at the Ahmanson 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z “I never wanted to make the same record twice,” he said, invoking Neil Young, the patron saint of musical unpredictability, as an inspiration. In Ray LaMontagne’s ‘Supernova,’ Hints of the ‘60s 2014-04-30T18:25:15Z The singer compares his “baby” to God and Satan, and while he points out, “I ain’t no saint,” he’s not confessing to any specific sin. Gregg Allman: A Voice of the South Who Mixed a Musical Melting Pot 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z He took us to the village’s little bookstore, stocked with volumes on Kalaupapa and religious souvenirs of Father Damien and Mother Marianne Cope, also sainted for her work helping the afflicted in the early decades. The site of an 1860s leper colony on Molokai island draws determined travelers 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “But with God near, let’s find some cheer And judge Finn with restraint — Why, compared to his kid brother here, He was a &%$*! saint.” Gene Weingarten: Poetry slammed 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z One is a poignant, nearly 600-year-old alabaster figure of a saint who Catholic tradition says was crucified by the ancient Romans – a sculpture that the Nazis looted in 1934 from a German Jewish industrialist. Getty acquires first photos ever taken of ancient ruins ISIS recently destroyed 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Layer after layer of saint murals were painted. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z As Mandela, Mr. Fishburne is stuck playing a living saint in a screenplay that doesn’t bother to explore the sources of its protagonist’s exceptional strength. Review: ‘Madiba,’ a Stately but Static March Through Mandela’s Life 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z WE want our great artists and writers to be one thing or the other: saints or sinners, angels or devils. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z Teachers — the saints who volunteer their lives, treasure and mental health to stand in front of a classroom in an American public school. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z In fact, my mother was given a relic of this saint, for luck, when preparing for my birth, her eighth. Colette Bryce's poetry workshop 2010-09-20T12:43:00Z Day was the patron saint of that persuasion: industrious, uplifting, dependable, and brisk. The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In the context of the “Vespers,” it seems like a modern relic, the skeleton of some departed saint. At the Armory, Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’ Are Newly Immersive 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z She came to be venerated as a local saint in Brazil. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z According to History.com, the Greek saint gave away his wealth and traveled the countryside of what is now considered modern-day Turkey. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Nearby hang several versions of a 1990 etching that morph the saint into a curvaceous woman warrior who resembles an ancient fertility figure shot through with arrows. Louise Bourgeois: Imagination Unfolds in All Dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The opera vaguely suggests the life of a group of 16th-century Spanish saints, and all the words for “Pigeons” come from lines that St. Ignatius sings. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z In a section on the pastoral, for instance, you will find Titian’s “Landscape With St. Theodore Overcoming the Dragon,” with its scaly monster belly up like a submissive dog before one of Venice’s patron saints. Art Review: ‘Renaissance Venice’ at the Morgan Library & Museum 2012-05-31T21:44:28Z The wraithlike Ms. Rampling, who has the posture of a dancer and, apparently, the patience of a saint, smiled for them all. At 69, Charlotte Rampling Knows What ‘You Look Amazing’ Really Means 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z The “saints” in Lord’s Restoration are spookily blissed-out acolytes who bond in fanaticism. Faith and fanaticism collide in 'The End Times' at Skylight Theatre 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z And while Colombia has lately turned rightward in its politics, Cuba is in many ways a patron saint of Cartagena’s after-dark culture. Love and Cartagena: Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez Dreamed Here 2010-04-29T22:16:00Z The wheels turn with wobbly precision and the hand, holding a rock, thwacks the tormented saint's chest. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z Mr. Halim has studied how the original artists layered, rippled and painted glass to depict saints and biblical scenes. Magnificent Obsession Morphs Into a Stained-Glass Museum 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Dryden agrees: “People who say ‘I regret nothing’ are either saints or stupid, in my view. Regret can seriously damage your mental health – here's how to leave it behind 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z In one letter, Fr Jerome Xavier reports to his masters in Goa that "we remain nearly all night in conversation with Akbar, relating many things of Christ our Lord and his saints." Art treasures of the Mughal empire 2012-11-30T22:55:14Z His specialty is devotional imagery — saints and cherubs and Virgins. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Rose, the prickly beauty, and Mary, the enigmatic saint: I wonder, is there a better name to remember all our mothers with? What a mother should be 2013-05-12T10:00:00Z These days, saints and angels just aren’t as widely known as electronic games, yet West sees a kinship. In the galleries: At Osuna, scarlet makes a splash amid Hamami’s black-and-white 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The portraits of dying and martyred saints need cleaning and repair, but scudding clouds and sunset streaks can still be made out in the backgrounds. Antiques: Restoration Project: A History of Leon Dabo 2012-07-19T20:19:07Z No increase in quantity is enough to recreate that first, awed rush of awe in front of Tintoretto’s strapping yet weightless saints. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z There are enough of these St. Jeromes, and they convey such a range of invention and emotion, that one can’t help but sense some shared identity between the artist and the saint. Review | The Rijksmuseum displayed ‘all the Rembrandts,’ and crowds went crazy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z A shepherdess who heard the voices of saints in the sound of church bells, she led the French army toward decisive victories in the Hundred Years’ War before being tried for heresy, witchcraft and cross-dressing. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z In 1996, a group of four girls broke a centuries-old convention when they started learning Sufiyana music, a classical Persian genre of music which Kashmir adopted after Persian Sufi saints started visiting the region. Kashmir girl band breaks up after threats 2013-02-05T13:32:10Z The only way to appreciate this is to study medieval manuscripts, where individual differences are manifested, especially in the feasts of local saints. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for the cause of freedom of speech and even as a kind of secular saint. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z But even as the Catholic Church moves toward making her a saint, others are saying she was a fraud. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z Quasimodo lives in lonely isolation in the bell tower of the cathedral, his only company the bells themselves and the statues of gargoyles, angels and saints surrounding him, and with whom he regularly converses. Review: ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at Paper Mill Playhouse 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Jude, who was named after the patron saint of lost causes, becomes part of a circle of saintly friends. Friend in need 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Like Chaucer, Dickey tries to do justice to the long, circuitous route of the saint’s spiritual journey. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z And with that, he goes back to the Latin dancers, the uplifting rhythms, the vibrant story of saints and survivors. Feast: the Young Vic goes Yoruba 2013-01-30T19:30:01Z The influence of patron saints dedicated to literacy – reading and writing – continued long after the Middle Ages. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z The late GOP campaign consultant Lee Atwater is remembered as the patron saint of aggressive South Carolina politics. ‘You didn’t hear this from me, but . . . ’: Why South Carolina primary politics are so dirty. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z When you visit the homes and shrines of various saints, you often see hair shirts or whips or spiked chains on display. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z So in the movie we see the husband in one scene, lying in bed, tells Helen Hunt that she’s a saint for what she does. Sex surrogacy is my calling! 2013-02-20T17:30:00Z And in some circles the man who murdered those people has been elevated as a saint. I lost my virginity at 37: What that night at the Bunny Ranch really taught me 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z A great deal of the credit for this candor goes to Stone’s partner, whom Michael Herr christened “the patron saint of writers’ wives.” Review | An unvarnished look at the troubled life of novelist Robert Stone 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “Renegades” also arrives while news is still fresh that Springsteen had been arrested in November on charges of drunken driving, a rare scandal for one of rock’s living saints. Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen: The Latest Podcast Duo 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z It’s amazing to see someone in our lifetime doing that – it’s like having a patron saint! Debra Granik’s cultural highlights 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The only French king canonized as a saint, he is revered as a model of wisdom, justice and good government. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z He was a saint for waiting an hour for my food to arrive, while his curry sat in the oven. Blind date: ‘I hope my lockdown haircut didn’t count against me’ 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z As the maniac, the saint, the sinner, the drinker, the thinker, the queer. Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z As lumberjack-chic became a uniform for trend-conscious men around the country, Mr. Somer was soon being hailed as the “patron saint of hipsters.” Taavo Somer Can Make Anything Cool, Even Golf 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z When Mother Teresa is made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, one city will be particularly proud of its famous native, Skopje. In Skopje, residents proud of native Mother Teresa canonization 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z But where those artists depicted flowers, animals and Buddhist saints, Stacks conjures scientific and mathematical principles. Review | In the galleries: Drawing as meditation 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z He became the patron saint of the book. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Victor LaValle on His Novel 'The Devil in Silver' 2012-08-29T16:00:51Z But these are human, universal things that go beyond Ai Weiwei … he's not saying he's a saint, or that he is wholly right or good. Ai Weiwei shows Venice Biennale his many sides 2013-05-30T11:57:01Z Nearly 18 feet across, this epic tableau pictures the gleaming Saint Mark, patron saint of Venice, plunging headfirst from the sky to free a naked slave punished for worshiping him. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Savoring a pastry named after Saint Honoratus — the patron saint of pastry chefs — on the Mount of Martyrs, next to a place that revolutionized the art world? In Paris, a pastry Renaissance is underway 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z “I didn’t want to offend anyone’s patron saint, so I made up my own.” Artist recycles guns, ammo into provocative models of houses of worship 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The saint must have been disruptive, bewildering figure, but when Francis’s exasperated father calls him a bum and a brat, it feels all-too accurate. ‘God’s Fool’ Review: A Singing, Beat Poet Saint 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z To Lotto, he is destined for greatness, and his wife is a saint. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Dickey’s saints do not amaze so much as they unsettle, confounding fixed boundaries of the human, bridging the gap between faith and fecklessness, pathos and pathology. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Such is the paradox of this saint of simple ways. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z There are no demons here, nor saints, just the walking wounded grappling with that age-old question: How does the bright promise of youth so often tarnish into tragedy? A troubled adolescent's downward spiral, and the vortex that pulls down the whole family 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z “Neruda” transforms an icon of Latin American letters, a poet who is practically a popular saint in Chile, into a flesh-and-blood human being full of frailties and charisma. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But the months abroad brought the brothers close together and transformed their dying mother into a saint. Mum and Dad: the prism through which we see our siblings 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z At the church’s entrance is a statue of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint and founder of Sisters of Charity, who was baptized there at age 30, after her husband’s death. A Tourist’s Guide to Catholic New York 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Grace, who works as a waitress in a diner, is not a total saint, mind you. Marvel a marvel in diffuse 'Book of Grace' in NY 2010-03-18T01:46:00Z Among the characters in “Mercury” are a trio of rowdy, fatalistic Italian spinsters, Maria’s great-aunts, whose house is full of plastic figurines of saints who are expected to answer their prayers or face their wrath. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z When someone is proclaimed a saint by the pope — which can happen only after death — public devotion to the saint, called a “cultus,” is authorized for Catholics throughout the world. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, conservative pundits couldn’t wait to claim her as patron saint. Feminist flamethrowers: Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the modern sex wars 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z There is a particular skill in presenting a character who is nearly flawless without turning her into a staid saint. ‘All Together Now’ Review: A Song as a Source of Hope 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z You can’t fault a Swedish saint who has never been to Palestine for imagining a Swedish Mary. Dreaming of a dark Christmas: Decoding the seasonal iconography we take for granted 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z "He's a real character. He's not this benevolently saint character. He's stubborn and doesn't befriend the people he should. He's confused in love and he's temperamental. He has a healthy disrespect for authority." Another 'Poldark,' and once again it's scything the fans 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Inside the drawers are scenes that depict saints and Renaissance-style scrolls. Enough to Cause Art Lovers to Swoon 2010-11-20T19:38:00Z The kids got to climb Croagh Patrick Mountain, named for Ireland’s patron saint. Summer of KidsPost spotlights readers’ travels to other countries 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Despite her name, she’s not a saint, and not entirely selfless. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z She's shed her physical body and fashioned herself a martyred saint. How "Saint Maud" turns a feminist lens on body horror and gives its "final girl" autonomy 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z We adore their holiday places, admire their exquisite clothes, Elizabeth David is our saint for bringing us their food, and so on. What's the French for tittle-tattle? Let's ask Sarko | Katharine Whitehorn 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z His mind wandered to New York City and its downtown saints. A Young Artist Charts the Journey from “Haiti to Hood” 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Its vertical collision of saints and seraphim strongly echoes Caravaggio’s “Seven Acts of Mercy,” and here, too, the high drama of holy suffering is tinged with the violence of the Roman street. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z While it would be a mistake to see Liszt as a saint, it would be even more inaccurate to view him as a fraud. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z Pilgrims have been doing this journey for a thousand years, and Popes and saints and kings and queens, and basically when you walk the Camino, you're walking with all of those spirits. "It would change our politics": Emilio Estevez on why we should all take a pilgrimage 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z “The hysteria with Pavlensky is an alarming sign that anyone who becomes a significant ‘fighter against the regime’ is immediately put on a pedestal and declared a saint,” the artist Lena Hades wrote on Facebook. Russian Dissident Artist Will Seek Asylum in France 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z I have to say, my mother was a saint. Experience: I didn’t hit puberty until I was 19 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z “Bunch of saints over at the Chick-fil-A in East Ridge,” Hall posted. Chick-fil-A employees change customer's flat tire at the drive-thru 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The depiction of the saint, patron of artists, sweeps across time. 'Sculpture in the Age of Donatello' shows artist's competitive spirit 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Less painstaking than Charles Ray’s latter-day effigies, less unnerving than Katharina Fritsch’s animals and saints, the sculptures here look dismayingly like oversize Disney figurines. A Mini-Met-Mashup on the Museum’s Roof, With Summer Views 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “I was, like, ‘It’s kinda weird, but it’s kinda cool you came up with a different idea, so I’ll go along with it,’ ” said Whitney, our patron saint of empathy. Date Lab: At the end of the night, they thanked each other for being normal 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z To the dismay of some and the joy of others, the District was left without a patron saint of graffiti. Washington is fighting graffiti artists — but it loves the graffiti aesthetic 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z “For example, what could these Buddhist saints say to the world today?” he said. Dragons, Saints and a Sexy Nurse: The Art of Takashi Murakami 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Perhaps Toby is not the long-suffering saint he imagines himself to be. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “I think she came to represent something, like a patron saint of vulnerability or something,” she says, sipping an iced cappuccino. Rebecca Miller on the Mother of All Subjects: Her Father 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Scholars liked intarsia images of musical instruments and books, and popes and monks ordered portraits of saints. Holiday Gift Guide: Antique Collections, From Royal Goblets to Buddhist Robes 2012-11-22T20:51:14Z “He was not much known because his oeuvre is more limited to religious scenes and saints,” Mr. Elen said. Fra Bartolommeo Has His Moment 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z People of Jefferson, you are being patrolled by saints. Steven Seagal: Lawman 2010-07-06T11:00:00Z At the bottom, 19 saints kneel in rows. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia,” was to turn the father of Bolshevism into a mix of “saint, tsar and revolutionary martyr.” He?s Had Work: Preserving the Face of a Revolution 2010-02-26T05:24:00Z The point of the novel will be that he is a kind of saint. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z I mean, think about it: Purely based on his physique, Russell does not present as a child-friendly saint. Smart Watch: We need hot Santa Claus, now more than ever 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Both my sainted mother and I are now using fox cakes in our everyday exchanges and it is working well for us. The real thing 2010-08-10T08:08:00Z He's also the closest thing the staff of the New Inquiry have to a patron saint. New York magazines – start spreading the news 2013-01-06T00:07:33Z The 170 castellers, aged from six to 75, are in London to show off their skills and to help celebrate St George's Day; the dragon-slayer is also the patron saint of Catalonia. Catalan human tower dazzles crowd in London 2013-04-19T17:44:10Z Here, recently expired relatives take on the appearance of contemporary saints. John Szarkowski 2010-07-20T11:05:00Z Church interiors were both sunk in shadow and saturated with light: sunlight filtering in through windows; candlelight glinting off gold vessels; halos radiating from images of saints. Art Review: Stained Glass at the Cloisters 2014-02-28T00:07:01Z Rosalia’s relics are paraded through the city as the epidemic abates, and the grateful citizens worship her as the santuzza, the “little saint,” who saved the city. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Such marvels multiply in the six silver half-size sculptures of saints from the High Altar in the Monreale Cathedral. With a Centerpiece Like This, Who Needed Cake? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z My husband has been a saint in making her a part of all our vacations, dinners out, etc., with no complaint. Perspective | Ask Amy: Going on a cruise and dreading telling a sister who won’t make her own plans 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z They’re like these secular pop deities — commercial saints, in a way.” | Richard Phillips's 'Most Wanted' 2011-01-19T17:25:32Z Yet the crew made it back to the harbor at Bari, where the townsfolk and clergy processed, singing joyous hymns, to greet the saint. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Critics complained that her writing could be simplistic in casting India’s tribespeople as saints battling the villainous landlords who exploited them. Mahasweta Devi, Bengali Writer and Activist Who Fought Injustice, Dies at 90 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s a grand, medieval-looking thing decked out in secret compartments and paintings of saints. ‘The Advent Calendar’ Review: A December Full of Tricks and Treats 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Berry takes the loss as expected: “His air was that of a saint from whom great tribulation has taken the urge to live.” Review | Escape reality with these delightful old-time thrillers. You’ll forget 2020 is almost here. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Combining historical material with contemporary Iranian art, the exhibition was, in effect, a critical history of heroes — emperor, athlete, saint — though it never explained that theme. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But the tombs revere Sufi saints, and the Islamist rebels who have taken over Timbuktu regard such saint-cults as idolatrous. Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z The history of racism in America, and of efforts to overcome it, is usually addressed by Hollywood with a solemn, anxious, churchly hush and flattened into a tableau of villains and saints. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z We’re none of us saints, but we have an enormous capacity for tolerance – and with extended family members it’s often tested to its limit. My wealthy daughter-in-law always treats us very rudely 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z “A really good saint does nothing,” she wrote. ‘Gertrude Stein Saints!’ Sets Vivid Words to Music 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Last year, when a fan scanned every issue and put them online, one site described him as “a true internet saint.” Partying with the Germs and drinking with X: A new book about Slash magazine captures L.A.'s early punk scene 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The documents on display were old, rare, important, and largely unrevelatory of the character of the saint. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z "I was totally committed, in my own way, to becoming a saint," Rosini confides. The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico – review 2013-04-24T10:00:01Z Perhaps it is the saints’ ability to embody this tension — between productive pedagogical value and the very resistance to being productive — that has made them so endlessly compelling. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z While written records on the famous Christian saint are scarce, surviving tales suggest Nicholas donned red robes – a rumor that’s often reflected in depictions of him. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z A black-and-white photo of Sophia Loren hangs over the fireplace, serving as a sort of patron saint for this distinctly Italian spot. An Italian Bar Fit for Romance in Greenwich Village 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps the oldest holiday on the Western calendar, it dates back to 837, when Roman Catholics began honoring all saints, known and unknown, on the first day of November. Southern Journal: All Saints' Day 2011-09-16T21:20:02.017Z The Martin Luther encountered in this biography is a hero, first and foremost, and also something of a saint — despite the fact that Luther rejected traditional concepts of sainthood. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The marquee attractions are the remarkably intact fourth- to sixth-century paleo-Christian mosaics of archangels, saints, religious officials and ancient buildings that decorate the lofty dome, glittering and sublime. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Outsiders could do worse for a patron saint, and comedy audiences will find few more luridly intimate accounts of the hedonistic lifestyle. Margaret Cho ? review 2011-08-08T17:30:02Z The film is suffused with an air of melancholy and sense of spiritual emptiness, which Sorrentino explained by quoting a character in the movie, a Mother Teresa-style living saint. Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes 2013-05-21T17:46:11Z Not a saint, then, but a woman who seized her freedoms rather than waiting for anyone to grant them to her. My hero: Anne Lister by Emma Donoghue 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Of course he's England's patron saint, you wally, representing all those romantic notions of Englishness, a defiant spirit, dragon slaying and a jolly large red cross. Doctor Who slays St George 2010-04-21T16:00:00Z It doesn’t matter: Van Gogh is the patron saint of every mental illness you can name. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It’s not often you meet a saint, let alone live with one. One upside to the divorce I didn’t want 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In general the show refrains from designating saints and sinners in the stories it tells. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z Vera called to mind one of those African American matriarchs familiarly thought of as saints: a woman in her twilight years whose culinary expressiveness was like a gift she bestowed on the people she loved. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z I always thought of musicians as being the saints of our time. No Direction, No Restriction: D.A. Pennebaker Looks Back at a Dylan Documentary 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z His early subjects were saints, and later he favored twilit riverbanks, battlefields, bouquets and eerie pastures striped with dead trees. Antiques: Restoration Project: A History of Leon Dabo 2012-07-19T20:19:07Z Flass is, without question, the patron saint of bad comic book cops. From murderous detectives to evil space police: The worst cops in comics 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z For windowpanes, woodcuts and parchment pages, they depicted fluted columns and arched doorways around saints, Greek philosophers and French royals. Antiques: Dymaxion Cars, Americana Auctions and French Gilded Art 2011-01-13T22:41:34Z For a weird kid like myself, who never felt like he belonged or fit in, Alan Turing wasn't just an inspiration — he was a patron saint. Alan Turing's story the perfect fit for 'Imitation Game' scriptwriter 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Clearly the woman is a saint, as she also reminded me to take the blotting tissues out from under my arms before I went back to my seat. The Secret Actress at the Oscars: Meryl Streep helped me dry my sweaty armpits 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The anachronistic hang lets you see the family portraits as coherent with a Counter-Reformation painterly tradition, in which saints were depicted as recognizable humans on the cusp of divine transformation. Titian and Gerhard Richter: Keeping Faith With Painting, 5 Centuries Apart 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Within its elaborate frame, an angelic choir sings, saints and sinners gather round the lamb with its half human face, and faraway hills are dotted with towers and spires. The adoration of Ghent: art, history and flavours in Flanders 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z To meet De Sica — he was a saint to me, the biggest director in the world. Sophia Loren Makes Her Return to Film: ‘I’m a Perfectionist’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z He injected a contemplative aura into the grueling, and contradictory, desert isolation actually endured by the saint. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Up here, wandering through a fancy forest of spires, you’ll notice that the saint statues up close suddenly become more lifelike. Historic hits in Italy’s most mod city 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z But as the papacy increased its power, it claimed the exclusive authority to name a saint. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The one that incorporates holograms of saints sewn into the fabric? A Trinity of Opinions on the Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z “How dare you use my sainted mother against me,” Falcone said. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon and Falcone Fight Back 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z “It’s almost like playing a mythological figure or a saint or something,” says Segen, the tenor. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z I would say Jackson had the patience of a saint, but it’s probably more accurate to say she had exactly the amount of patience required from all Black women on a daily basis. Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Only a saint, of which the Catholic Church had plenty, could bank sufficient good deeds to open heaven’s door straightaway. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The company hopes to keep this production alive, touring it, and if the music business chooses to honor the just, that will be a saint’s compensation. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z “Here” is a mountainous island off the coast of Wales, said to be the resting place of 20,000 saints. ‘The Bones Beneath,’ by Mark Billingham, and More 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Martyrs, a special category of saint, also offer up their lives, but they do so for their “Christian faith.” Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z To them, he is “Vincent” — the patron saint of psychic anguish, the acme of tortured genius. Review | Vincent van Gogh’s early work was mediocre. This exhibition shows how he became great. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z As a historian of religions who has written books about ancient saints, I caution against reading accounts of saints’ lives as factual history. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Her self-torturing asceticism verged on the holier-than-thou, and her preoccupation with bodily chastisement was akin to that of the desert saints and anchorites, says Saunders. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders |Book review 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z Constantly late, and continuously sidetracked, Vic has the patience of a saint as his level of exasperation rises and rises and rises. The wildest, most poignant, or unforgettable movie scenes of 2019 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z As far as Irish society was concerned, he was a living saint. Sinead O’Connor Was Ireland’s Alternative Moral Compass 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z For New Yorkers barracked in our houses and apartments, or doctors and nurses scrambling for face masks, beseeching a saint to end an epidemic may not sound sufficient. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z These relics befit the saint who couldn’t stop teaching, preaching, and praying. Escape the Venice crowds with these memorable day trips 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z On “Adam’s Lament,” a CD of choral works, Mr. Pärt, an Estonian, displays his affinity for the mystics and saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ARVO PäRT: ‘ADAM’S LAMENT’ AND OTHER CHORAL WORKS 2012-10-28T04:20:05Z "We are not showing all Palestinians like they are saints or all Israelis like they are not," he said. Julian Schnabel defends U.N. screening of "Miral" 2011-03-16T23:27:16Z I winced, wary of Holt’s allergy to antiquity, but he was awed by the intricacy of its facade, replete with biblical scenes, grumpy lions and saints frozen in various karate poses. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z For Romero to be canonized, or declared a saint, after beatification, a miracle will have to be attributed to him. Pope moves slain Salvadoran archbishop Romero nearer to sainthood 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Islamic textiles, some with Arabic inscriptions, were used to wrap the relics of Christian saints. What Museums Don’t Reveal About Religious Art 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z When he won best director at the Golden Globes, he started his acceptance speech by praising monsters as “patron saints of our blissful imperfections.” Why Are We Ashamed to Call ‘Get Out’ and ‘The Shape of Water’ Horror Films? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z I've already recorded my admiration for this intense and fascinating survey of saints' relics, the ornate reliquaries created to hold them, and the rituals of pilgrimage that venerated them. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z A grimy old-master painting of a saint gazing upward, his hands crossed on his chest and a skull perched on a rock in the foreground. Inside Art: Muscarelle Museum Scholar Identifies an El Greco Work 2012-04-12T22:22:40Z He does an admirable job navigating Mel Gibson’s Freudian preoccupations—martyrdom, faith, blood, guts—without making Doss too much of a simpleton or a saint. Oscar Spotlight: The Actors 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z "Humankind cannot live without heroes, martyrs and saints," Sabato, an intellectual known as a tireless activist for justice and human rights, once said. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99 2011-04-30T15:28:34Z The saint was famous for rejecting materialism and teaching the divine beauty of the natural world. In a monastery garden, Pope Francis’s environmental message is taken to heart 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Her figurative images portray saints and scenes from the Bible. A Stained-Glass Gift, From God and Gerhard Richter 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z “I’m not any more a practitioner of Catholicism, but I was obviously interested in that saint spirit – I really truly believe that it’s much more real than physicality.” Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z “It’s called flowers wilt/It’s called apples rot,/It’s called thieves get rich and saints get shot,” she continues. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z Susan Sontag dedicated “Notes on Camp” to camp’s patron saint, Oscar Wilde. A Few Notes on Grumbling 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z They looked after him for five years, attended his prayers every morning, celebrated Christmas and saints’ days with him, and ate their meals with him. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z But it’s too bad that while Mr. Obama’s story about his date has tension, a moral and politics, Mr. Tanne’s has plaster saints. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Thus Peace’s deft novel leaves us wondering whether Akutagawa was a saint or a madman, a great writer or a bad husband. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Pilgrims visit the relics of the saint, considered miraculously preserved: his vocal chords, tongue, and jawbone. Escape the Venice crowds with these memorable day trips 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But Masonic handshakes aren't predictable unless you happen to be a Mason – they're mysterious and faintly sinister; barnacles aren't threatening or aggressive; and haloes don't radiate outwards – they sit on saint's heads, or surround planets. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z The people of the village regard the dead boy as a saint. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Other readers hated the growing streak of Eastern mysticism in the saga, as Seymour evolved, in successive retellings, from a suicidal young man into a genius, a sage, even a saint of sorts. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z Thankfully, the patron saint of indulging and letting loose when her husband Jeffrey is out of town swooped in to provide a moment of levity. Ina Garten advises us to "drink more large cosmos" after reading Reese Witherspoon's wellness tips 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z First of all, it’s no secret that Ms. Parton is a patron saint of drag queens. Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z There are no saints, but the good guys and gals are skilled at self-deception. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The exhibition’s overabundance of small paintings of intimidatingly stern saints and gray-bearded patriarchs can make you yearn for a smiling Buddha, while some of the more entertaining pictures depict horrifying martyrdoms. Art Review: Italian Paintings From the Feigen Collection, at Yale 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z To live with the saints in heaven Is a bliss and a glory But to live with a saint on earth Is a different story. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Saint Nicholas, who lived in the fourth century in what is modern-day Turkey, is one of the most revered saints in Russian Orthodoxy. Thousands throng to bow to St Nicholas relics in Moscow 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z His arms are covered with old track marks and prison ink depicting images of saints and portraits of his many grandchildren. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z Images of saints invariably portray them as calm and beatific. Mueller’s report is done. Is there still a point in having a prayer candle with his image on it? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z As Dickey notes, the temptation is always to glean something useful from the lives of the saints, even if the lesson is that “the lesson always gets away from us.” “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z A doorway from Madison Square, depicting vines and saints, has turned up in storage at the Brooklyn Museum. Antiques: Madison Square Presbyterian Church Fragments Found 2011-12-01T22:39:26Z “Life doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints.” Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Why does a saint who is supposedly writing hold open a book that is already filled with text? El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death Dozens, if not hundreds of books have been written about Earhart, arguably the patron saint of women fliers. Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z EG: The House of Commons is not full of saints but nor is it a den of thieves. Should Chris Huhne be able to resume his life in politics? 2013-05-18T16:58:01Z She's wretched and he gets a laugh, but it's worth noting that only sainted wives and the topless rate as women in Fuqua world. Brooklyn's Finest: Training Day in Overdrive 2010-03-06T00:20:00Z This route, really a network of paths, is a great way of remembering Norway’s 11th centrury King Olav II Haraldsson, who was later made a saint. 10 of the best pilgrim routes in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z A 15th-century wooden statue of a saint occupies the niche above one altar, which is appropriately furnished with two tall candleholders. Classical Epiphany 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One female portrait, however — "Study for The Lord's Prayer" depicting the artist's second wife, Ernestine Harlander — stands in welcome contrast to the sometimes bland young women who turn up as saints in his work. Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z They were saints about it too because, and I cannot stress this enough, I wasn’t very good at it. When U.S.C. Plays U.C.L.A., They Play Too 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z “There are no saints in the animal kingdom,” he tells the supermarket magnate. Emily Nussbaum: The Minnesota Noir of “Fargo” 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A few years later, Pope Urban II — the one who would preach the First Crusade — formally enshrined the relics of the saint. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Roped off, elevated on a riser for display, it is spotlit ordinariness, like the toe-bone of a saint set in a filigreed golden reliquary. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z To that end, King, who when alive was one of the most hated and unpopular people in the United States, is transformed into a public saint and hero. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Donald Trump: In many ways, the civil rights hero saw this coming 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Jerome is my favorite saint, and I’m not remotely religious. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Renaissance and baroque paintings of sacred subjects — last suppers, crucifixions, the torments of saints — bustle with profane life. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Day was a tireless advocate for the poor and homeless, but what exactly is a saint and was she one? Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z If video-conferencing needs a patron saint, though, it is surely Yasujiro Ozu, the purveyor of such restrained, achingly humane studies of postwar family life as Tokyo Story, Late Spring and Floating Weeds. Need zing in your Zoom? Let Warhol and the avant-garde vamp up your video conferences 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Her 1950s prints, with formal, stylized rows of saints or a centralized Virgin or Christ, reflect her study of medieval sculpture. 'Someday Is Now' reflects influence of the '60s and Warhol on artist Sister Corita 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z It seems that Apple, the patron saint of the wounded, has finally met a bully big enough to pull her into the churn of the news cycle and keep her there. Fiona Apple’s Protest Chant “Tiny Hands” Meets Trump at His Level 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z More pressing, for instance, was a desire to understand Jocelin, whether he was saint or sinner, genius or madman. Reading group: The Spire's many meanings 2013-04-15T10:34:02Z In 2013, the Peabody Awards dubbed him “the patron saint of television comedy” when it bestowed a rare individual award. In second Honors this year, Kennedy Center to recognize Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Lorne Michaels, Berry Gordy and Justino Díaz 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Conference of Catholic Bishops, the church then requires three more steps for a candidate to become a saint: veneration, beatification and canonization. Neb. founder Boys Town orphanage up for sainthood 2012-02-27T23:03:18Z Lately, however, he’s gotten new vibrancy, and in “Pearl Fishers” he was passionate yet focused, ardently blending with Mr. Kwiecien in their soaring duet, “Au fond du temple saint.” In NYC This Weekend? Here Are 2 Art Shows, 2 Operas and 5 Plays 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z So I went to college and read all the rest of the books and she was sort of my patron saint. George Saunders: 'It was good to have a painful immersion in capitalism' 2013-05-26T08:00:06Z Dozens of porticoes along the outer walls are bricked in and divided into dark, gated rooms holding saints’ bones and candlelit altars. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z But he refuses, and is soon killed by Nationalist forces — another saint who dies for freedom. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z If not president, maybe patron saint of the Hair Club for Men. Inside the fabulous world of Donald Trump, where money is no problem 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The saints, for all their glamour, are earthbound. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z She’s magical but not reliable, materializing and vanishing abruptly, like the sainted mother in the tenderest dreams of any orphan. Oz Revisited – Part 5: What’s the Matter With Kansas? 2013-09-20T20:09:43Z Especially after “Bandz a Make Her Dance,” which is about getting strippers to shake it with stacks of banded money, you’ve kind of become the patron saint of strip clubs. Playlist: Juicy J on Ambitions, Younger Rappers and Strip Clubs 2013-08-30T20:51:31Z He painted a barnstorming composition of the martyrdom of the saints Processus and Martinian, whose nude bodies, splayed on the rack, bisect a deluge of torturers, mourners and angels. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In Mr. Smith’s telling, Rasputin was neither a sinner nor a saint, and very much a product of his time. ‘Rasputin’ Unravels the Myths of the ‘Mad Monk’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s convenient: You don’t owe anything to a saint. ‘Abbott Elementary’ Is Gifted and Talented 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z I was ready to leave the subject alone, but then the patron saint of the nonreclining movement got in touch, and I couldn't resist the opportunity to chat. Inventor of Knee Defender insists airlines shouldn't sell the same space twice 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Indeed, saints racked up more than they could ever use. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “Yes, he’s Christian. He’s based on some saint. The one in charge of presents. Speaking of which…” He held up the paper bag and smiled at me. A Nineteen-Fifties Jewish-American Christmas Story 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The history books we read as children regularly shy away from the complicated humanity of our saints and champions. How well do we know our heroes? A new book shows the darker side of Martin Luther 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z By contrast, In the Name of the Father saw him play a virtual saint, sinned against by son and state. 'The day I shared a pint or five with Pete Postlethwaite' 2011-01-06T15:48:31Z “I was reading what all these people were saying: ‘Oh, rest in peace and she was a saint, and she sacrificed herself,’” the sister, Rozalind Cruz, said. Sacheen Littlefeather and the Question of Native Identity 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z “Queen & Slim” refreshingly exposes Queen’s complexities without villainizing her or making her out to be a saint. What ‘Queen & Slim’ Gets Right About Black Women 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z On the album’s cover is a statue in that square, of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, a Cossack military commander now adopted as the patron saint of the Ukrainian army. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Tillinghast set up her own studio in 1884 and was best known for her windows, showing saints and literary figures against backdrops of Mediterranean hills, fluted pilasters and Gothic tracery. Antiques: Rhode Island Americana, Mary Tillinghast and Byrdcliffe Art 2012-01-05T22:29:20Z The mausoleums of Koshkar-Ata once housed the bodies of local saints, but many of the most recent tombs are engraved not with ancient religious symbols but with outlines of oil derricks. The Promise of Oil for the People Around the Caspian Sea 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z She looked sainted, venerated — at 29, 36, 49 and 60. Cicely Tyson Kept It Together So We Didn’t Fall Apart 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It is an especially scandalous piece of propaganda, horribly imaginative in the forms of depravity it devised for the empress who was officially known as an endower of churches and saint of the Orthodox church. The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy - review 2012-07-20T21:55:01Z Crucial to the show is an expanded definition of the term saint. Weekend Miser: ‘Saints Tour’ Theatrical Walk, in River to River Festival 2012-07-05T18:14:51Z Whether she comes down on the saint or sinner side, though, has long been a question. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z Simon was displaying the patience of a saint. "American Idol" recap: Crystal Bowersox saves 2010-04-21T13:22:00Z The man, who told us he was a landscaper from California named Jude — the Roman Catholic patron saint of desperate causes — was a believer. Abandoning Doubt in Sedona, Arizona 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z After one run-through, during the final phrase, “Fundamentally and saints,” Sandy plunged down the scale to end on a sustained, hearty low C. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Built in 1775, the church sits atop a cave where the saint’s grave is preserved. Cyprus recovers looted 18th century church doors from Japan 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Like tears in public, the saints are unruly; they overflow propriety, or whatever categories we use to contain them. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Both saints have a beatific aura, but Benedict’s beard, robes and book are more subtly, realistically rendered. Backers of Yale Italian Paintings Show Lament Loss of ?Eye? 2010-08-04T22:44:00Z The current-day Santa may be a semi-secularized character, but he “derives from Saint Nicholas, an early church saint famous for giving gifts to children, and being the patron saint of children,” Pecknold says. A guide to the secret meaning of holiday symbols 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The issue would have been that Thomas à Kempis did not peacefully accept death as a saint should. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z He used light effects to simulate buttery flesh that, even at small scale, made saints appear like real human beings. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z But the writing sometimes feels generic, with each character a type: Mike is an irresponsible drug user; Paul a straight-arrow family man; Vicky the nurse, a dying saint. Thought-provoking 'Puncture' documentarylike 2011-11-03T19:58:04Z The resulting image is of a saint who is also a man, and of a world that is divine, but also not. Critic?s Notebook: Alone in the Wilderness and the Spotlight 2011-06-09T23:01:20Z Festival honoring Italian saint with entertainment, Italian food vendors, wine garden, proceeds donated to Puget Sound Blood Center, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-09-04T23:24:30Z Elsewhere, a "multisaint" is being built: a mad, mangled Frankenstein's monster of a sculpture with body parts harvested from different saints. Michael Landy: patron saint of destruction 2013-04-29T17:39:01Z After several stops, and more raids, the saint and his gospel were buried in what became the great cathedral of Durham. British Library seeks ?9m to buy oldest book in Europe 2011-07-14T15:47:59Z She is a patron saint of babies and animals, of the excluded or teased. Motherlode Blog: I Do Not Want My Daughter to Be ‘Nice’ 2013-07-31T13:54:11Z The grounds feature rustic grottoes dedicated to the saints, lush lawns and forest. A latecomer to the #vanlife party takes a 4,000-mile road trip in a pop-up camper 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z McCorvey found comfort in religion, particularly in the patron saints and rosaries that became a part of her daily life after she converted to Catholicism in 1998. Seeing Norma: The Conflicted Life of the Woman at the Center of Roe v. Wade 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z A small group of men and women, clutching the holy icons of Greek Orthodox saints, was dancing and twirling around the floor under the sound of the instruments: a Thracian lyra, a gaida, a tambourine. Glimpses of an Ancient Fire-Walking Ritual in Northern Greece 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z We see her first in a crowd of other extras, hilariously bellowing "a miracle, a miracle" in a sword and sandal epic about the exploits of some second-tier saint. 'The Passionate Thief' as laugh-out-loud funny now as in 1960 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The work, “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” from about 1475, depicts a young nobleman holding a round painting of a saint. Botticelli painting sells for $92 million at auction in NYC 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But such objections will be drowned out by the vibrancy of a novel whose Whitmanesque arms embrace an entire city of lovers and strivers, saints and killers. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z LENOX, Mass. — Teenage saints — and yes, religious history records the existence of such improbable phenomena — are apparently not so unlike other teenagers. Review: ‘Mother of the Maid,’ a Lesson on Raising a Teenage Saint 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Vodret argued that the most interesting element is the position and perspective of the saint, who is shown on the grill, one arm extended, his figure illuminated. Experts sceptical about Vatican's attribution of 'Caravaggio' painting 2010-07-27T13:10:00Z If the investment sector needed a patron saint of killer rapacity, as clawed its way to record profits and stranglehold power in the middle years of the last decade, Gekko was it. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z Many Andalusian cities, towns and villages developed their own pilgrimages — known as romerías, so named because pilgrims traditionally walked to Rome — dedicated to their particular patron saints. Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Bodies will then be resurrected, and that includes the saints who now exist as souls in heaven. The bare bones of belief 2010-07-29T18:00:00Z I refrained from making Mrs Gadny an object of pity, a plaster saint, because I loathed the patronising sentimentality that was then an essential ingredient in fictional depictions of old age. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z “She’s not a saint/And she’s not what you think,” she spits out on “Better Than Revenge,” seething over losing someone to a predatory woman. Arts & Leisure Preview: Taylor Swift Is Angry, Darn It 2010-10-20T22:06:00Z While I was doing all that plotting, there was one artist who seemed the very embodiment of defied gravity, the patron saint of the mission. Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ Helped Me Beat the Odds. Will We Finally Even Them? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z I noted blank, bemused or even outraged responses to some abstract canvases and anorexic-looking steel saints. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z Yet a dozen years later his remains were being worshipped like those of a saint, with his bones transported to Caracas while Colombia claimed his heart. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z He plays cracked saints and tragic monsters: the broken maths prodigy in Revolutionary Road, the remorseless mafia killer in The Iceman. Michael Shannon: ‘Actors are just models nowadays. Going to the Oscars is like going to the prom’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z In stark contrast, late medieval compendiums of saints’ lives, notably Jacobus de Voragine’s “The Golden Legend,” present entire church calendars of resolutely chaste, determinedly self-sacrificing female martyrs. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Pilgrims took this manna home in little bottles or used rags to sop up the moisture that dripped from the saint’s tomb in its subterranean crypt. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z If you believe Lincoln is a secular saint, then "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is nothing short of sacrilege. 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter': It's ridiculous, honestly 2012-06-20T22:25:08Z The church, which houses the saint’s tomb — “one of the very sacred places of Italy” — is a magnet for religious pilgrims. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z Movies about colorful characters, be they saints or sinners, are often hijacked by their subject, so it’s unsurprising that Mr. Stone, with his bespoke suits and Nixon tattoo, owns this one from the get-go. Review: ‘Get Me Roger Stone’ Profiles a President Whisperer in Peacock Mode 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Unable to decide if its namesake is saint or sinner, genuine mystic or false prophet, “Benedetta” is too ambivalent to find focus or resolution. ‘Benedetta’ Review: Habit Storming 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Renaissance painters, he noted, made spirituality accessible by depicting the saints as real people. Shoja Azari Puts New Faces on Islamic History 2010-05-20T20:28:00Z An exquisite combination of metalpoint and brush drawing on panel, it shows the saint seated on the ground amid a landscape of her robes, while in the background a cathedral intimates the gates of Heaven. At the Met Breuer, Thinking Inside the Box 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z But unlike the jolly figure who purportedly flies on a sleigh from the North Pole, the saint came originally from the balmy Mediterranean coast. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z And a presentation of newly donated drawings, from the collection of Herbert and Carol Diamond, includes lovers by Ingres and saints by Delacroix that are models of rigorous perception. Welcome to the Great Indoors: Museums Beckon in the Berkshires 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Outside the window, down on the beach, there was a procession for some Catholic saint. Border walls aren't about security — they're about preventing empathy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z She was nothing, actually; people try to make a saint out of her and glorify her. Bid to censor Anne Frank's 'pornographic' diary in schools fails 2013-05-16T10:48:24Z Mr. De Lestrade doesn’t present them as Hollywood-style saints, but as conscientious civil servants who are extraordinary primarily in their doggedness. Review: From a True-Crime Pioneer, a Different Sort of Truth 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z He describes him almost as a latterday saint who "led" the cast. Tom Hooper: 'At 12, I swore I'd have my own film in the cinema' 2012-12-29T22:01:20Z "They don't expect Hollywood figures to be saints," he said. Film returns Travolta to spotlight, amid bad press 2012-06-15T16:02:12Z Once again, we are schooled in the danger of confusing persona with reality, of turning the talented and successful into saints or heroes. In Bill Cosby saga, feelings of betrayal and vague complicity 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z "They would bring cookies to honor the saint, and to give travelers a snack for when they arrived from all over the country to praise the saint." What's the story with Christmas cookies? Why do we leave cookies for Santa? 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z And boy, have these saints got some preaching to do. ‘3 Christs,’ About Milton Rokeach’s 1959 Study 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Each Ajah's design drew from a range of influences, from art history and fashion to tarot cards and actual historical figures like warriors, nobles and saints. Magic and mysteries woven into "The Wheel of Time" main titles 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Under the heading “Legends of St. Nicholas” came polyphonic selections dedicated to that saint, including one of the oldest songs in the English language. Music Review: Noel in the Museum, Medieval Edition 2010-12-16T05:00:06Z They aren’t saints or angels, though some, in their odd way, do look angelic. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z Originally, the invading Spanish encouraged the local population to celebrate its own gods on Catholic saints' days. '!Carnaval!' makes stop at Burke Museum 2011-10-06T21:08:05Z Born in Turkey in the 3rd century, Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors. Gold ring stolen from St. Nicholas statue in Italian church 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z It is a place of saints, martyrs and sinners. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z There is no religious iconography: no crosses, no saints, no stained glass. What the megachurch tells us about evangelicals in HBO's "The Righteous Gemstones" 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Trebek said he’s had difficult days, calling his wife, Jean, a “saint” for her unwavering support as he’s faced moments of sadness and depression. Alex Trebek expects to mark 2-year cancer survival in 2021 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Not many of them were saints; like most of us, they had flaws, but their lives remind us of what one person can do to overcome seemingly insuperable barriers of hatred. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “I can’t begin to tell you how patronized and stereotyped the elderly were at that time: put-upon plaster saints were the dramatic order of the day,” he told me. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z And now the tribe is being spearheaded by Donald Glover, who at this point is probably the patron saint of black kids who love being black but still get called oreo. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The Beat Museum hosts regular readings and other events, and houses a collection of objects and manuscripts related to the Beat saints. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z “St. Martin de Porres” and all of “Black Christ of the Andes” is Williams’s spiritual offering to her chosen patron saint, and it is a gift of hope and reflection to our listening ears. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z “Eric calls them our saints — I like to think of them as our rogues gallery.” The Church, an Arts Center in Sag Harbor, Is Opening 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z And, simultaneously, as if to flex her experimental chops, she created hyper-realistic reliefs of severed heads of martyred saints. With Splendor and Saints, Hispanic Society Shows Its Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Half a century later, in “The Harvesters,” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, saints have been replaced by farmers, the sacred by the secular, the gold of halos by the gold of ripe wheat. Art Review: New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800, at the Met 2013-05-23T22:47:11Z It’s not hard, in a country that felt an atavistic hunger for saints and sanctification, to grasp the need for such bardolatry. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Priestly custodians there became suspicious when the sailors asked to see the saint’s body. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z If “Radicals in Miniature” is a kind of hagiography, these saints are very minor. Review: Recalling an Electric New York in ‘Radicals in Miniature’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Prices for the salvaged goods will range from a few hundred dollars each for batches of tiles to the about $10,000 for stone doorways and stained-glass portraits of saints. At This Brooklyn Church, Everything Must Go 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Talpa’s lovely Our Lady of the Rosary church draws thousands of pilgrims every October to honor its petite patron saint, nicknamed La Chaparrita. Find history and personality in Mexican hilltowns near Puerto Vallarta 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The saints are currently set in two stacked rows. Antiques: Current Events Imperil Ukrainian Museum Show 2014-04-24T21:32:44Z A low front altar is layered with thick candle wax, flowers and a pantheon of black saints, Madonnas and African deities like the sea goddess Yemanja of the Yoruba religion. Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Some people hold him up to be a saint. Matt Damon to narrate Lance Armstrong documentary 2010-10-20T01:09:00Z Part of the “heartwarming” narrative that we like to tell ourselves about education is that teachers are saints. ‘Abbott Elementary’ Is Gifted and Talented 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Aged 32, and with the deep-set eyes and ascetic gaze of an El Greco saint, he brings a subtle wit and apparently boneless fluidity to everything he performs. Rambert New Choreography 2012 – review 2012-06-02T23:05:56Z The Spanish-born Serra, who lived and evangelized in Mexico and California for 30 years, will be named a saint "in September, God willing," the pope said. On Junipero Serra, soon to be sainted by Pope Francis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The voices that France’s favorite sainted soldier so famously heard are guaranteed to sound brand-new in this electric-rock reimagining of her road to martyrdom. 5 Must-See Shows in New York This Month 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s an illness memoir without saints; its heroines a flawed mother and her flawed daughter. When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z What faith and doubt have in common is that both are hard work, and the hard-won wisdom of “Higher Ground” is that human nature does not necessarily distinguish between saints and sinners. | 'Higher Ground': ?Higher Ground,? Directed by and Starring Vera Farmiga 2011-08-25T22:13:02Z Other tours visit the Coptic Red Monastery in Upper Egypt, its frescos of doe-eyed Coptic saints Egypt’s best, and the Ben Erza synagogue – founded, the story goes, on the site where Moses was discovered. Five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb opens for virtual tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Still, Bono seems to believe that our planet’s busted systems can and will be repaired, which makes it hard to decide whether he’s a visionary, a saint, a power-groupie or a fool. Review | U2 goes MAGA at FedEx Field 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z By the early 19th century, American merchants, artists and writers began to move away from the historic saint in favor of fantastical tales. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z “This Sunday, starting at 4:30 p.m., we will host a funeral for the saints, victims of a grossly negligent homicide by the NFL and their officials,” English wrote. Restaurant holding 'funeral' for New Orleans Saints following 'grossly negligent homicide by the NFL' 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Instead, we see Mother serving up cabbage and meatloaf, which practically makes her a saint in my book. Can We Talk About the Mom in ‘A Christmas Story’? 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z And the annual San Inazio Festival, a rambling street fair, celebrates the Basque patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, every July, with traditional food, dance and performances by a Basque a cappella choir. Cultured Traveler: Herding Sheep in Basque Country (Idaho) 2012-08-24T19:19:51Z Most people, mercifully, are not saints, least of all in the churn of competitive industry. We Can Handle the Truth 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Accusations and counter-accusations polarised views of Dickens: was he, the headlines demanded, a monster of depravity or a secular saint? The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z “Why, the walls I’ll even paint! My only fee? In your eulogy ... Say my brother was a saint.” Gene Weingarten: Poetry slammed 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z And in work spanning 40 years, Ms. Srimati’s choreographic take on naturalism makes everyday subjects — a woman dressing, a family riding to market — look heroic, and images of deities and saints look approachably human. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The texts themselves, in Latin, had little to do with the saint. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z He is either a saint or a sociopath, or perhaps both, with a silent, watchful demeanor and what may be magical powers. Movie Review: ‘Hors Satan,’ Directed by Bruno Dumont 2013-01-17T23:18:44Z What I love about him, he doesn’t make his women saints. Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Dickey’s saints are petulant in their pursuit of spiritual perfection. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z This painting, on loan from the Vatican Museums, is an unfinished depiction of the Roman Catholic saint, draped in a sheet and kneeling in a desert as a lion growls at his feet. How the Louvre’s Leonardo Blockbuster Shows a Master’s Progress 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It depicts the saint in humble garb, surrounded by a motley assortment of demons. Hieronymus Bosch’s Five-Hundredth-Anniversary Homecoming 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z And then San Francisco De Sales Island is supposed to refer to the patron saint of writers. Michael Grant: 'Super speed would be the most bad ass superpower' 2013-05-30T13:59:37Z It’s hard not to read Cohen’s gentle satire in this: multitasking as the highest human good, and Shelley Stone as our patron saint. Can Women Have It All? Not in Silicon Valley 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Granted, Pope Paul VI removed the holiday from the church’s calendar of saints’ days in 1969. Music Review: New York Polyphony at American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012-02-17T22:15:25Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian This Friday, 30 November, is St Andrew's Day, feast day of the patron saint of Scotland – and the perfect excuse to dedicate this week's RR to all things Scottish. Readers recommend: songs about Scotland 2012-11-29T22:00:00Z The saints, we learn, are infinitely appropriable; they are meant to be citations, repetitions, at once exemplary and inherently imitable. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Since Poe’s death in 1849 he has been the patron saint of paranoia, the poet laureate of the young, lonely and morbidly romantic, who see this world and the next as one seamless, fearful pageant. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery 2012-04-27T10:30:18Z Some of those saints are still with us, some not. A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z I would like to somewhat dispel this impression that she was some ascetic saint of the desert. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z “Naples is full of votives for saints and I played on that idea,” he says. The city where Diego Maradona rose from the dead 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z The lead – brittle, babbling, blithe Midge – is framed as a saint, but somehow manages to steamroller everyone else. Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Look closely, and the mural sports several small medallions of the Virgin of Guadalupe, saint and protector. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “These characters are deeply flawed — no one is a saint,” Colón-Zayas said. Liza Colón-Zayas Swears by Brené Brown, ‘Hacks’ and Hugs 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z All photograph: David Levene To some, he is verging on a saint and martyr, singlehandedly standing against the forces of Chinese political repression. Ai Weiwei shows Venice Biennale his many sides 2013-05-30T11:57:01Z Over the past year, Lyubimova, the culture minister, has visited and praised several such shows, including a Moscow exhibition venerating Russia’s warrior saints. A Blockbuster Exhibition, Ripped in Two by Russia’s War 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Next -- saints preserve us! -- you made it your mission to help the homeless. Feeding homeless: decade of doing good 2011-08-03T01:10:10Z The report also highlighted similarities with other Caravaggio's paintings, for example in the saint's hand or body movement. Vatican paper: new Caravaggio may have been found 2010-07-17T20:01:00Z From coastal isles to Alpine valleys, Orthodox monasteries are strewn across the country, many covered in vivid frescoes of elongated, big-eyed saints depicting stories from the Bible. Returning to Montenegro 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Springsteen’s voice appears as if out of a mist, like the apparition of a patron saint. Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa’s Retro Rock, and 8 More New Songs 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z It won a Pulitzer Prize and made Powers something close to a secular saint. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, the temple eventually became home to the mystic Sri Ramakrishna, who dedicated his life to the pursuit of holiness and is still revered as a saint and spiritual master. ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z All of us gazed with reverence upon the hole as if medieval Catholics peering at the toe of a saint. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Margo Price contains multitudes on her rollicking new single “To the Mountain and Back”: “I’ve been a dancer, a saint, an assassin,” she sings with a hard-living swagger atop a chugging guitar riff. Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z She feels for her protagonist without apologizing for her flaws, granting the complexity of this woman and her situation — a refreshing counter to the sinner/saint split of too many cinematic mothers. Offbeat Streaming: ‘Knock Knock,’ ‘John Lewis’ and ‘Sleight’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z I didn’t want to whitewash what happened in our marriage or to turn my husband or me into saints or demons. Deborah Copaken never wanted to be ‘Shutterbabe.’ Her new memoir is on her terms. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Abreu is referred to by his loyalists as a father, a saint, a visionary, a philosopher or, most often, simply as maestro. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z She had hallucinations, paced her bedroom endlessly, and found herself talking to saints and dead scholars. Baclofen: the controversial pill that could 'cure' alcoholism 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Politicos of all stripes are styled as saints and stamped onto novelty devotional prayer candles. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z One story is that back in the third century, a saint named Valentine, who faced execution for officiating illegal marriages, fell in love with his jailer’s daughter. 2010-02-13T03:57:00Z In my yearning to widen my knowledge of religious experience and ideas, I studied saints, mystics, philosophers, writers on a search for spiritual enlightenment. Is Any Topic Off Limits When You Write for Teenagers? Maybe Just One 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z On the other side is a prisoner, chained, beaten and whipped, his face bloodied and swollen, his forlorn eyes raised to the facade of the Church of Saint Blaise, Dubrovnik’s patron saint. The fantasy world of real-life Dubrovnik, Croatia My next thought is for your sainted parents. Social Q's : The Non-Parent Trap 2011-05-12T22:34:40Z There are all these people out here whom the folks at home think are saints and walk on water. Lohan director explains why we hate Lindsay 2010-07-08T15:30:00Z I suspect we all are people with holes in them, and there are many saints to apply to. Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Royals aren’t generally saints, nor are they terribly interesting when they are. Cheers for naked Prince Harry! 2012-08-22T19:35:00Z But the saint himself is a man of flesh and blood who bends forward, looking troubled, almost haggard. Art: At the National Gallery, Art That Made the Leap to Real Life 2011-04-29T11:57:27Z Millions of people have elevated Snoop to these giddy heights, made him the patron saint of rap. Snoop Doggy Dogg: 'Ain't nobody else bigger than me but Michael Jackson' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-03T14:20:00Z When my former boss left her namesake site earlier this year, much was made of the fact that the patron saint of new media enterprises, The Huffington Post, was never fantastically profitable. Can the news be saved?: 2017’s emerging media outlets face just as many challenges as old media 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z But Henderson, who once worked at a group home for juveniles, is too fine a writer to set a wooden saint at the center of his novel. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson Wandering-standing in the cathedral, alone with the saints, the melancholy Fortinbras is aware of their gaze, inquiring of him what happened to the past. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s no shortage of fiction inspired by Joan of Arc, but in Chen’s telling, the saint found the fuel to fight the English in her traumatic childhood. 12 New Books Coming in July 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z But Dickey’s floods and overflows harbor a crucial recognition: lives do not add up to saints, however we tally them. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z “This kind, patient saint here,” Cecil says, squeezing Lipscomb’s shoulder warmly, “is trying to teach this computer-illiterate person how to do stuff.” High-tech gifts: You should love them. If only you knew how to use them. 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Especially interesting to me are those circling the lives of a Northumbrian saint, a Tasmanian princess and a Maori warrior. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z The imperfections of the program are embodied by Ralph D., a really good sponsor and a really bad human being, upending the cliché of the sainted sponsor. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z You have these dead babies that are dressed up as saints — part of this notion of sanctity from Catholicism. Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z “Where is it,” he senses the saints asking, “where is that place where their soulful nature would mean something?” ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z I'm creating my own saints: taking the body parts. Michael Landy: patron saint of destruction 2013-04-29T17:39:01Z To many liberals, Dr David Kelly is a hero and martyr and might easily have been played as a saint. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z Leading the charge was flamboyant singer David Lee Roth, patron saint of party animals. Van Halen, a full moon and Cinco de Mayo ? loco! 2012-05-06T17:19:17Z Within the Catholic Church, a range of patron saints can serve as inspiration for writers. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z But he admits that one episode in the novel, in which God calls a board meeting of all the saints, including Mohammed, does occasionally cause him to wake up bathed in sweat. New Frey novel on second coming vies with British novel on same theme 2011-03-17T16:53:13Z Asked about the novels’ tough depiction of Sir Thomas More — regarded as a saint by the Catholic Church — Ms. Mantel offered no apology. Up Next for Hilary Mantel: Playwriting? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z It was here that, according to legend, the saint struck his staff into the ground and it sprouted into an ash tree. Ash dieback reaches Cumbria - a county where the tree plays a special part in history and folklore 2012-11-13T10:34:18Z “Did you know that America’s first saint was a woman?” says one character. Review: ‘Novenas’ Offers Prayers for a Hospital That Died 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Sex while the woman was pregnant or menstruating, sex on a Sunday or a saint's day, sex during daylight hours. Rewind radio: Disability: A New History; Book of the Week – review 2013-06-01T17:00:03Z Meanwhile, Edmundson adds, “the profound stories about heroes and saints are passing from our minds.” ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Bosch’s work is deeply religious: with a few exceptions, his pictures depict moments from the Bible and the lives of the saints, or scenes of heaven, hell and the bits between. Painter of our greatest fears 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z A wall relief featuring haloed saints painted on individual lengths of two-by-fours attached to a board of dappled color seems obliquely related to the santos tradition. Art Review: ?Testimonios,? Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio 2012-02-09T23:48:36Z The saints’ eyes and pearl strands are formed from dots of white lime. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z This year, Janney won two Emmys, one for a comedy, one for a drama, making her this year's patron saint of character actors. Character actors take center stage on TV in 2014 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z “I hope Mandela doesn’t come across as a saint. He was a flawed human being, like we all are.” In ‘Mandela: The Lost Tapes,’ a Veteran Journalist Finds Himself 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Michelangelo divided the cosmos into saints and sinners. Art In Review: Richard Avedon: ‘Murals & Portraits’ 2012-07-05T20:36:16Z Trussed up in miniskirts and outsize stilettos, Martha is the kind of girl to try the patience of a saint, but you miss her as soon as she steps out of the story. The Secret Hen House Theatre by Helen Peters – review 2012-07-13T21:40:01Z I'll play a serial killer again too, but my point is I love Joel, and I love that Joel is not a saint, but he's also not a stereotype. Why we all love "Somebody Somewhere" star Jeff Hiller: "Everybody feels like they're the outsider" 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z At first, while in his prison cell, he painted portraits of saints. Antiques: Penitentiary Restores Prisoner?s Biblical Murals 2011-07-22T05:15:25Z In his abstract thoughts, he sees himself as a kind of saint, a man who thinks only of the work and the glory it brings to his religion. Reading group: What does William Golding's Spire stand for? 2013-04-09T12:35:20Z Of course, my Catholic faith believes in the communion of saints. William Peter Blatty talks literature, life after death and lousy movies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The show is rich in drawings, too: extremely fine studies of saints’ heads and soldiers’ armor, and quicker sketches in which crossed lines suddenly resolve into a gondola and its oars. Mysteries of a Venetian Perfectionist Revealed in Washington 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, the saint seems to be a living corpse, caught between life and death. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Il Magnifico is now buried here too, under a modest altar adorned with Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child, flanked by saints that also had their toes nibbled by cleansing bacteria. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z What’s clear is that certain bodies, namely those of people who had died for the faith and been designated saints, were considered exceptional. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z Along with his digressive style, this made Sahl the patron saint of alt comedy, but he was no niche artist. There’s No Dave Chappelle or Hannah Gadsby Without Mort Sahl 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Her Madrid workshop supplied royal families and aristocrats with saints, angels and martyrs, and she carved each clay detail of jewelry and embroidered billowing robes. Antiques: Lumière Autochromes and Other Early Color Photos 2013-01-04T00:46:45Z The seaside neighborhood of Rockaway, Queens, still piecing itself together a year and a half after Hurricane Sandy, has found its patron saint in Klaus Biesenbach, the most hospitable grill master in the art world. | Shelter From the Storm 2014-05-02T16:34:39Z Over its rounded portal were carved animal representations of the four evangelists, and inside were colorful frescoes of saints. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z By shifting the emphasis from sin to sinner, the Reformers “preached a radical spiritual equality. . . . All people were innately and unavoidably sinners, and, through the grace of God alone, all could become saints.” ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Despite being recently announced as the new face of the high fashion label Saint Laurent, Reeves has long been the patron saint of normcore, decades before it became a fashion statement. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Both Italian patron saints came to be associated with books, reading and schooling. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Neither a saint nor a sinner, but many things in between. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z Photograph: Patrice de Villiers "Curry's my absolute favourite food," says Rolf Harris – painter and art educator, musician, creator of the wobble board, late-flowering patron saint of Glastonbury and international treasure in both hemispheres. Love music love food: pop will eat itself 2011-07-15T22:00:00Z Everywhere, people looked for miracles, believing the intercession of the saints would save them, while one smiling priest takes another tack, selling umbrella handles carved from the bones of the saints. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z “He’s literally been the patron saint of the Arms and Armor department.” Ronald Lauder Gives Major Arms and Armor Gift to the Met 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Many want him remembered not as a saint, but as a full-blooded man whose metamorphosis from rebel to hero came during his more than 2 1/2 decades in prison. The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z They might be saints, or possibly fiends, or maybe just naughty kids, but the havoc they cause is real. Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Digression and detour are the norm in Afterlives; Dickey speaks not for, but with, the saints. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z This 16th-century Spanish mystic, saint and doctor of the church could sigh over her own limitations with the precision, earthiness and wit of a born writer. ‘Teresa, My Love,’ Julia Kristeva’s Latest Novel 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Moorcock evidently has some difficulty with the post-mortem transformation of his old friend into a kind of cultural plaster saint. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z Soon we crested a knoll and a statue of St. Bernard, the patron saint of mountain climbers, popped into view. Climbing the Matterhorn: Step by Step 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z She travels throughout the U.S. and the world performing a one-woman show as the 14th century saint Catherine of Siena. 5 things you don't know about Bill Murray 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z He can play a slave or a thug, a buffoon or a saint. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Some saints are muscular Christians, but there are no fat saints. 'You have to experience it to know what fat is like' 2013-02-02T08:01:04Z They are fanboys of Ayn Rand, the patron saint of selfish adolescents and titans of industry. Fountainhead of bad ideas: Ayn Rand’s fanboys take the reins of power 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Portraits were for kings, popes, saints and other luminaries higher up in the cosmic food chain, and their images were meant for official, more or less public display at sites like churches and tombs. Art Review: ?Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini? - Review 2011-12-22T23:31:48Z His two dozen canvases and reliefs, installed between 1895 and 1919, portray Christian saints and rites evolving out of pagan and Jewish rituals. Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z One of the new patron saints of serial drama, Rust Cohle, said that time was a flat circle. Time Is a Round Donut: The Graze-Watching Possibilities of Simpsons World 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Watching her face as it slowly dawns on Mary Louise that her sainted son may have committed significant evils is a small masterclass in acting. "Big Little Lies" is back to stare at the sea 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z And you were put in touch, directly or indirectly, with a community of devotees seeking the good graces of a particular saint for the same reason you were. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z The reason sacred images in churches and abbeys had to be destroyed was that they set up saints as false gods. What makes art a target for attack? 2013-07-08T16:23:22Z West African slaves, transported far from home, held on to rituals that praise saints and spirits with songs, dances, galvanizing rhythms and trance possession. Music Review: Mystical Morocco Bursting With Tribal Rhythm 2011-05-22T21:45:10Z “Here, a gift for you,” he said, handing me an icon of St. Basil, one Montenegro’s most popular saints. Next Stop: Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital 2013-09-05T13:01:37Z These are recognisable human beings, not saints: peevish, petulant, prone to feuds, rage and selfishness. Alive by Piers Paul Read - review 2012-10-02T11:43:14Z These are not the standard, well-behaved saints, the Johns, Jameses, and Josephs. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z This is at least part of how Dickey approaches the afterlives of the saints: as symptomatic of those lingering excesses of faith which haunt the dreams of a supposedly secular age. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z In the Philippines our religion wasn’t as restrictive; what I remember was learning the stories of all the saints and the gospels as superhero stories. Melissa de La Cruz loves fairy tales so much she'll turn them inside out 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Yak sausages and sauerkraut steamed in chafing dishes beneath the gaze of saints who peered down from white walls. In Quebec, a Winter Celebration on Skis 2013-01-25T18:23:12Z Because Nicholas was a patron saint of sailors, Spanish sailors and explorers carried stories of the saint wherever they went: Mexico, the Caribbean, Florida and other ports around the world. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z They tickle our memory centers without inviting unflattering comparisons to some sainted original. ‘The Get Down’ and ‘Stranger Things’ Feed Nostalgia With a Historical Remix 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Even if “For Greater Glory” is considerably more sophisticated than some of its forerunners, its characters are clear-cut saints and sinners. Movie Review: ‘For Greater Glory’ Traces Mexico’s Cristero War 2012-05-31T22:13:04Z “The ones that are converted think of him as a saint,” said this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing their relationship. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z The Hubbard that emerges from Going Clear is certainly no saint. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-02-02T16:00:01Z We walked to Dante’s House Museum and the Florence Cathedral, with its famous red-tiled dome and turquoise niches stuffed with saints. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In her stretchy red pantsuit, O’Malley is the patron saint of all 50-year-old women who refuse to roll over and become Norma Desmond but instead want to “kick, stretch and KICK!” Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z If suddenly she becomes a bit of a saint, then it’s just another movie that no one will ever give a s--- about. Toni Collette brings life to the role of a dying woman 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In fact, Jenny becomes a kind of saint in prison, patiently suffering her fate while secretly committing acts of kindness to help Elizabeth. Why would a mother murder the child she loved? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Amid the crowd, too, you might catch a glimpse of the University of Mississippi’s greatest sports legend, Archie Manning, a kind of secular saint in Oxford. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z If there was anywhere in the middle ages where all people were equal, it was under the high vaults of a cathedral dedicated to God and his saints. Viewing Europe’s Houses of Worship in Wild Detail 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The boys find a bench with a bronze sculpture of a saint at one end, seated, looking pious, his arm raised plaintively to the sky, palm upturned. What we tell our sons about rape 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Like an open picture book, its pages fluttering in the breeze, every surface is covered with tableaux from the Old and New Testaments as well as local legends and the lives of saints. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z Dickey treads this line carefully, filling out the singularity of the saints while insisting on their ability to bring human foibles into relief. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z But the saint herself is magnificently draped in lace and silk, a golden crown atop her head. "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels": Glam Nazis menace LA in this high style, no heart spin-off 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z The work’s roughness — so unlike the elegance of “The Edge of Ethics” — feels true to Anastacia’s makeshift, unofficial status as a saint. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z But if they were going to make an exception, it might be for the sainted David Lynch. Sofia Coppola to Michael Haneke: the movies and directors most likely to make it to Cannes 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. Mandela inspired music, movies, poems 2013-12-05T22:39:37Z Even his religious paintings – above all his mighty picture of St Luke, patron saint of artists, and his sumptuous Adoration of the Magi – are opulent feasts of surface effects. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z In fact, James represents an evolution of the trans male character beyond hero, saint or martyr to someone allowed to be ruthless and deceitful. The Trans Actors Challenging Outmoded Ideas of Masculinity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The paintings of carved saints on the third floor set up an especially lively dialogue, contrasting Christian imagery with Islamic semiabstraction, European with Middle Eastern, opulence and love of nature with colorless deprivation and martyrdom. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z Parade's End's protagonist, Christopher Tietjens, is a version of the Anglican saint. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z Rosalia is proclaimed, and remains today, the patron saint of Palermo. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Bruni leaps to beatify Christakis in his ascent to his pantheon of academic excellence, because a martyr must become a saint. The truth about the "campus free speech" crusade and its myths that won't die 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z The pious Anglo-Saxon King Edward, who founded the abbey, was made a saint, making the abbey a pilgrimage destination. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z This delightfully twisty tale of traveling children — are they saints or heretics? — wanted by the King of France in 1242 is “dense with literary and earthy delights,” our reviewer, Soman Chainani, said. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z In Christianity, patron saints are exemplars or martyrs who serve as role models and heavenly advocates. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Like “Game of Thrones,” it believed power does not accrue to saints. ‘The Good Wife’: A Broadcast Gem Fades Away 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Over the course of 17 years, readers will learn what choices Jane makes next, which lead to two daughters, one of whom would test the limits of many saints. Review | Katherine Heiny’s ‘Early Morning Riser’ may be the funniest novel of the year 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Soon she abandons Lawrence for the sainted Aaron. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The Christian saints had a hard time of it, but they were pretty stoical about their grisly martyrdoms. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z Such are the narratives — the fictions we build of and around the saints — that consume Dickey, who wisely tables the miraculous in favor of the weird and the unwonted. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Its patron saint, its hip and still-young godfather, is in that sense the architect David Adjaye, now 49, who is not in the biennial itself but hovers above it as a kind of glimmering presence. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “Our Country Friends,” which Random House will release next week, is being lauded as “the great American pandemic novel” and has drawn comparisons to Chekhov, who hovers over the novel like a patron saint. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z After his parents divorced, Barton and his mother lived in Queens with his Czech-born grandparents, who were steeped in Roman Catholic traditions of honoring the relics of saints, including their bones. Barton Lidice Benes, Provocative Artist, Dies at 69 2012-06-19T00:18:39Z Her more faithful companions were several life-size plaster saints and a stuffed buffalo which had got permanently stuck in her hall. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z For several decades, Andy Warhol was the patron saint of artists obsessed with mass media and celebrity culture, a fixation he expressed to the mainstream in a deadpan, affectless demeanor. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Count Dracula — a recluse plagued by yearning, a macabre flair for theatrics and existential loneliness — turned out to be an unlikely patron saint for the uncertain times, Kirkland said. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Hundreds of mariachi folk musicians filled the streets of Mexico City on Tuesday to celebrate and serenade the feast day of Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Mariachis parade in Mexico to celebrate patron saint of musicians 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Two years passed with no leads on the painting, which shows the elderly saint writing his famous translation of the New Testament, the first in Latin, called the Vulgate. The Maltese priest and the kidnapped Caravaggio: The amazing true story of the scrappy octogenarian who busted an audacious art heist 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z There, the mortal remains of saints, and objects sanctified by their touch, are the focus of attention. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero Prepares for Opening 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z As the narrator recalls growing up with this abusive, alcoholic man, and “all the years I’d spent wishing him dead,” he discovers that his long-suffering mother may not be the saint he took her for. Reviews: New Books From Sarah Hall, Mia Alvar, Katherine Taylor and Others 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The Vatican made her a saint in 1920, and in World War II, both the Vichy regime and the anti-Nazi resistance called her a source of inspiration. | The Koan of Joan 2012-01-06T22:30:09Z The lively and colorful celebrations of saints, ancient folkloric customs and traditional feasts build to a peak as the weather warms after Palm Sunday. Heads Up: High in Lombardy, Italy, a Less Crowded Pilgrimage 2012-04-06T19:37:00Z He also exhibits the physical prowess of a college athlete, the sexual swagger of a midcentury Casanova and the bighearted optimism of a saint. Arts & Leisure: Walter Salles Adapts Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ 2012-05-23T23:42:34Z Behind Stavros, three ornate stained-glass windows depict the death of the martyr St. Lawrence, the patron saint of chefs and cooks. ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Dead Dogs, Spiders and Pestilence 2014-04-30T03:15:10Z At that time, Mantegna was working in the area and probably influenced the extreme expressions of emotion most apparent in Crivelli’s paintings of the dead Christ, with their anguished Virgins and wailing saints. Carlo Crivelli, an Overlooked Renaissance Master, in Boston 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “They make aging so much fun. We’re not all saints — no, we’re perfectly human, and that is ultimately good for the group, too.” A Chat Room of Their Own 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Tuesday's celebration of the patron saint of Cornwall serves as a reminder of local heritage, as well as providing a forum for those who want to see some form of independence for Britain's western tip. This week's new events 2013-03-02T06:00:21Z Oddly, the Limbourgs did not feature the saint’s vision of the Virgin or her mystical marriage to Christ. Close Reading: The Belles Heures on Display at the Met 2010-03-31T23:05:00Z But bravest of all must be Heydon's attempt to get Tony Blair sainted. TV review: The Revolution Will Be Televised 2012-08-22T21:30:02Z Under skylights in the chaplain’s vaulted rooms, Mr. Smith depicted souls in purgatory and saints aloft. Antiques: Penitentiary Restores Prisoner?s Biblical Murals 2011-07-22T05:15:25Z My husband, who is a saint, said, “Take all the time you need.” I Quit My Job After a Particularly Good Beach Day 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z "It's important too to put that out there, to show queer people who are whole and not heroes, not saints, but not evil monsters either." Why we all love "Somebody Somewhere" star Jeff Hiller: "Everybody feels like they're the outsider" 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z This is something you don’t feel in, say, London or Paris anymore, what Gibbs beautifully described as “a mystic hangover, places where saints lived and that sort of thing.” T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z That’s to say, the gift giver, unless they are a saint, always wants something back. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In 2011, with the dual crises of the Arab Spring and the Japanese nuclear meltdown, even my sainted husband's patience wore thin. Motherlode Blog: Working Parents: Be Patient. And Relentless. 2012-07-02T16:50:55Z Listen, I'm no saint - I'm a feminist AND A a Gurrrrl who loves an offensive joke or a well-timed barb and you will find plenty in my repertoire. Kathy Griffin quits 'Fashion Police' after seven weeks 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It took some 500 years for the Roman Catholic Church to declare Joan a saint. A Restored ‘Passion of Joan of Arc’ Still a Transcendent Masterpiece 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Robert Mack, a tenor, and Matthew Burns, a bass-baritone, offered an appealing account of Bizet’s “Pearl Fishers” duet, “O fond du temple saint.” Music Review: Wainwright Offers Taste of Opera 2011-06-29T21:54:02Z Antony, as it happens, is the saint charged with protection against infectious diseases. Review | To get us through, finding the wisdom of books written in isolation 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z The scale was unprecedented in secular art, being previously reserved for depictions of God and the saints. When the Old Masters Were the P.R. Agents of the Rich and Powerful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z They seem like minor blessings, visits from a low-key saint. Bill Murray, Internet Jester 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z QL: My goodness, you make our teachers sound like a veritable convocation of saints. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Abstract paintings dot the second floor; the third has loosely Photo Realist paintings of carved-wood medieval saints and madonnas, some quite small, copied from old art history books. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z No one was better suited than Olivia de Havilland to play the sainted Melanie Wilkes in “Gone With the Wind” or more tenacious about the right to appear in the films of her choosing. Olivia de Havilland embodied old Hollywood, and shook it up 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z “They are not sending the actual relics” of saints’ bodies, he added. Antiques: Shahn Art Collection and Home Are for Sale 2010-10-14T21:46:00Z In the meantime, however, Joan had become a nuisance to the authorities, as saints often do. Heaven’s Tomboy: A Rock Musical About Joan of Arc 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z After refusing to reveal the secrets of the confessional to a nosy king, the saint was subjected to brutal torture before being drowned in the Moldova River. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Depp’s drug use and past addiction to opioids were brought up frequently, but his lawyers argued that he never claimed to be a saint — just that he wasn’t an abuser. Johnny Depp Jury Finds That Amber Heard Defamed Him in Op-Ed 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s hard to decide whether the central character in Farr’s novel is a saint, a martyr or just more zenlike than the rest of us. Family Sagas: Three Novels Probe Generations of Secrets 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z "It's important to show our saints in a way that makes the great good in us attainable," she says. Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!' 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z No one who has burned the picture of a saint in the initiation ceremony is wholly innocent. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z He has become the saint of total leftism: a quasi-divine being, than whom none more radical can ever be conceived. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review 2012-06-27T11:52:01Z Not that Hare paints Tom as a demon, nor Kyra as a saint. In ‘Skylight,’ a brilliant view of faded affair 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Tales of Nicholas helping people in need were spread for decades, which ultimately led to him becoming one of the most revered saints in all of Europe. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z In it, the Irish saint predicted the names of 112 pontiffs who would rule until the end of days. What Do You Wear to the End of Days? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “He remains the patron saint of the Treasury Department with good reason.” ‘Hamilton’ Is a Must-See for Treasury Chiefs, Too 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z More oddly, the officer then delivers one of the evening’s weirder soliloquies, in which he announces that he’s been anointed a secular saint, and then floats through the air a few inches off the ground. Review: ‘Nice Fish,’ Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins’s Quirky Ice Fishing Tale 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z In “Everybody’s Autobiography,” Gertrude Stein explained why she preferred saints to martyrs. ‘Gertrude Stein Saints!’ Sets Vivid Words to Music 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The title is taken from the Book of Revelation in the Bible, a reference to the army gathered by Satan who overrun the earth, including the camp of the saints. A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The installation “reflects three different responses” to Italian landscape painting, Ms. Allen said, with a common theme of penitent saints as depicted by artists in Venice, Florence and Ferrara. Inside Art: Sotheby’s Sales Feature a Mondrian and a Bacon 2014-05-08T20:43:32Z My friends down there called me santo—the saint—because I never chased girls. I had a fake online girlfriend 2013-01-18T16:15:00Z In the autumn, Christians celebrate All Saints’ Day – a day to honor martyrs who died for their faith and saints. Tricking and treating’s long history 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z We may casually use the word “saint” to describe anyone behaving decently, but real, official sainthood itself is a dark ages concept. Mother Teresa’s fast track to sainthood: How and why the polarizing missionary is being canonized now 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Biggest laugh or cry: The residents of St. Helena are called “saints,” a lovely term for the island’s approximately 3,500 inhabitants. One final chance to sail to St. Helena, a remote island in the Atlantic 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Pope Francis, Time’s 2013 Person of the Year who took the patron saint of the poor as his namesake, awakened in me a renewed sense of faith in the Catholic Church. How Pope Francis brought me back to Catholicism 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z What he is saying is that we search for the saint not up in sky but here on earth where we are. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z White was brought up Catholic, and he still feels an affinity for the martyrs and saints. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z Disillusionment with the teachings of the Jesuit boarding school he attended is probably the source of his rage – to him, the saint's ecstasy seems purely sensual. Readers recommend: songs about works of art – results 2013-02-01T09:56:00Z He has a framed Woody Allen poster: it’s Woody with his head ringed by a medieval saint’s golden halo, holding a gun to his head. The Cunning “American Bitch” Episode of “Girls” 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z “Jefferson is a patron saint far more suitable to white supremacists than to modern American liberals,” wrote Conor Cruise O’Brien. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Tohamy claimed to speak to saints and prophets, and even to be able to command his heart to stop beating. Loaded terms 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Goldblum, Hollywood’s patron saint of droll humor and artful corniness, also happens to be a serviceable jazz pianist, who first started gigging as a teenager. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The convent is dedicated, with a wink from Warner, to the patron saint of prisoners. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z More germane, and more interesting, is how a girl capable of delivering vast soliloquies on medieval saints and late-stage capitalism came to be a high school dropout serving weird pies. One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Prior to that, there was discussion and debate over when a fetus is ensouled, with saints like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas supporting a distinction between life and humanness. I don’t know how to be Catholic any more 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z "Some saints," she explains, "begin their lives imperfect and then turn into something special. Sister Tee says we are the sum of our imperfections. We sin and then we learn from our sins." Jami Attenberg novel pays tribute to big-hearted 'Saint Mazie' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The sense that he was not like other men made him a secular saint. Jimmy Savile was hiding in the light 2012-10-04T16:21:10Z “I knew my dad was no saint,” she said. Modern Love: A Photo on the Floor: My Father?s Double Life 2010-04-02T17:49:00Z Though she’d played this role a decade before we were born, Cloris was for us a patron saint of high-low comedy — the kind that rises below vulgarity, to paraphrase her collaborator Mel Brooks. Perspective | Cloris Leachman rose to the bottom of our hearts 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Bellini’s “St. Francis in the Desert,” in the Frick Collection, on Fifth Avenue, shows a smooth-cheeked saint, broad of shoulder and trim of waist, greeting the day with an athlete’s ardor. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Tucked away on a side street and not heavily publicized, this museum holds a fascinating collection of santons — “little saints” — figurines for Christmas crèches in the tradition of Provence. Thanks to Netflix, the Mediterranean city of Marseille gets an overdue close-up 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The result, as it must be for 2019, is a more ambivalent, feminist reading of Argentina’s first lady, lay saint and lightning rod. Review: An ‘Evita’ Newly Tailored for Our Time 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Their visits are part of an ancient pilgrimage tradition surrounding Tamil saints. For Asia Week, Gods, Saints and Flying Heroes 2010-03-18T20:58:00Z This is an especially welcome revision when it comes to the female saints, whose voices have so often been subsumed by church authorities and hagiographers. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z As a grand distraction, Garrick threw a fabulous party in the middle of England to canonize a new English saint, William Shakespeare. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Since the saint died in the fourth century, it is thought that the sculptor, Donatello, used himself as a model. Art Review: ?Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini? - Review 2011-12-22T23:31:48Z At the Cloisters in New York, a parchment sheet painted in Prague around 1405 for Benedictine services has saints and songbirds surrounding a prayer. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z There are some fantastic artists here, but there are no saints. The Best Art of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The worst thing is the negative publicity — making her look like she’s a victim, and also all these battered women who are now assuming she’s going to be the patron saint of battered women. Nigella Lawson: Another Star Chef Becomes a Cause 2013-07-05T20:08:27Z Francis, who took his name from Francis of Assisi, the 13th century saint seen as the patron of animals and the environment, is writing an encyclical on man's relationship with nature. Pope calls exploitation of nature a sin of our time 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z The novel includes pictures of saints, knights and gargoyles! Adam Gidwitz tells story of holy hound in ‘The Inquisitor’s Tale’ 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Living on a prayer … the Ansar Dine group has vowed to start on Timbuktu's mosques if they contain monuments to Sufi saints. Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z On my last day in Brussels, a kaleidoscope of experiences merged when, outside Notre Dame de la Chapelle church, I mistook an artist for a saint. Brussels emerges as Europe’s epicenter of contemporary art 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z But he speaks of saints and seekers and counts himself among them — even as he acknowledges that every saint and seeker is, in some fundamental way, a self-absorbed jerk. ‘Beast’ cements Paul Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Jousting, interactive theatre and more to celebrate England's saint. This week's new events 2013-04-20T05:00:24Z Both saints rise from the lost and desperate city of Kolkata — “a city run under the brutal, clear-eyed, and merciless auspices of the Goddess Kali. The creatress, the destroyer. The mother, the murderess.” ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Leonardo’s agonized saint isn’t the Jerome I love. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z It stars — who else — Kidman, who has become the author’s patron saint of premium cable. Liane Moriarty writes women’s fiction. Have a problem with that? She doesn’t. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Where else in America do you have a gold rush of opportunity amidst pockets of anarchy and lawlessness, gun slinging, farmers, miners, gypsies, vagabonds and saints? Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Church officials say the thief stole money left by faithful in a collection box and opened, without damaging anything, a glass case that displays a tall statue depicting the saint. Gold ring stolen from St. Nicholas statue in Italian church 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z In 25 paintings and sculptures, Mr. Wiley uses the same artistic concept to depict wounded and dead Black subjects, referencing classic imagery of heroes, martyrs or saints. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Surely I would get the Gandhi-like wise saint the world saw at the Golden Globes earlier this year, which prompted the world to beg her to run for office. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z She refers to this mess as “the still-warm relic of a saint.” Modern Love: Embracing Marriage, Flaws and All 2012-01-26T21:45:54Z She is a virtual saint, whose common-sense wisdom and compassion are inspirations. Movie Review: ‘Hollywood to Dollywood,’ a Documentary 2012-08-30T23:49:16Z They pictured the events leading up to and following Jesus’ crucifixion; the Annunciation; the Nativity; the Coronation and the Assumption of the Virgin; the Holy Trinity; and the martyrdoms of various saints. ‘Object of Devotion,’ an Exhibition of Alabaster Sculptures 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Brandishing his medal of St. Jude -- the patron saint of lost causes -- Ethan somehow channels an exorcism ritual in Latin. 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Vanessa in throes of demonic possession 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Most, however poor, were packed to the roof with things, their walls plastered with images of pop stars and Christian saints. ‘The Keeper’ Reveals the Passion for Collecting 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Docents and text panels will explain how the site came in and out of public view for 12 centuries and what the faded saints probably looked like when they were new. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z “What do they do? They eat him cause there are no saints in the animal kingdom. Only breakfast and dinner.” 'Fargo' Recap: Baring Teeth 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z As for Sicily, where images of the saint are ubiquitous, the infection rate today is far lower than in Italy’s richer northern provinces, but the island’s tourist economy is getting hosed. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Midway through the book, there is an extended comparison with the work of another saint, Mother Teresa, with her own craze and devotion and self-denial. ‘The Cauliflower’: The life of the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z A single light bulb cast a bleary gleam on framed pictures of the Hindu god Krishna, the Sikh saint Guru Nanak, and a Muslim Sufi shrine—a menu of sin absolvers to choose from. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The last third of the book is a series of short biographical essays about the “patron saints of pessimism.” Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The sad professors of campus fiction tend to be either clowns or saints. “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z And yet, despite all the heartache, he feels that the festival remains more saint than sinner. Cannes and Hollywood: a feisty marriage 2013-05-14T08:00:03Z At the end, the saint’s daughter throws herself on her mother’s coffin; it’s a wonder she doesn’t leap in front of a train. Movie Review: ‘Child’s Pose,’ a Family Drama Set in Romania 2014-02-18T22:25:20Z Lewis, a working-class family man with his feet on the ground and the patience of a saint. Colin Dexter, Whose Creations Included Inspector Morse, Dies at 86 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Conviction invites us to identify for a couple of hours with a tireless, selfless saint. Do you have the courage of Conviction to fight miscarriages of justice? 2011-01-17T15:49:38Z It is one thing to be a saint. Urrea's 'Queen of America': Teresita returns 2011-12-02T18:38:04Z In her 2007 memoir, “Spilling the Beans,” she recalled the inspirations for her numerous given names, including her mother’s favorite saint, Philomena, and a woman who cooked for her family, Louise. Clarissa Dickson Wright, Rebel TV Chef, Dies at 66 2014-03-18T00:52:49Z Icarus, Mephistopheles and the Valkyries fall, saints and angels ascend either on wings or up Jacob's ladder to the certainty of heaven or cosmic oblivion. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z They were Islamic saints, the poets and philosophers revered by Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. Music Review: In Union Square, New York?s First Sufi Music Festival 2010-07-21T22:31:00Z Their ceremonies were supplanted by Christian worship, their zemi statues by crucifixes and saints. The Art of Caribbean Exchange, in Gold, Stone or Hardwood 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Catholic saints practiced self-mortification, such as wearing itchy sackcloth, to encourage humility and to create greater compassion for the suffering of others. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z In 2003, a statue of the saint was erected outside the church as a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gold ring stolen from St. Nicholas statue in Italian church 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z He is not pretending to be a saint, but the setting does suggest things such as the stations of the cross, or the temptations of St Anthony, to whom the church is dedicated. Ai Weiwei shows Venice Biennale his many sides 2013-05-30T11:57:01Z “Only a saint could live with me, and I can’t live with a saint,” she says. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The video has been removed, but she will live on forever as our patron saint. 2012: the best of hate-watch TV 2012-12-29T00:07:21Z But the impression it leaves is didactic, a saints and demons fable that meanders to foregone conclusions. ‘The Legend of Molly Johnson’ Review: Reclaiming the Australian Frontier 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z In the “Transparencies” series of 1927-30, Picabia shifts gears radically, smoothing his surfaces and layering together the outlines of images from the High Renaissance, popular culture and Catalan frescoes, combining Botticelli saints with half-dressed starlets. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “It’s about how hard you can get hit,” in the words of Rocky Balboa, the patron saint of cinema’s comeback olds, “and keep moving forward.” ‘Jockey’ Review: Hit Hard and Still Riding 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z "One issue that deeply worried me in prison was the false image that I unwittingly projected to the outside world; of being regarded as a saint," he wrote. South Africans warm to Mandela movie, critics unimpressed 2013-11-29T11:55:56Z Crystal's rendition of the song had the angels and saints singing from the rooftops of heaven. "American Idol" recap: Crystal Bowersox saves 2010-04-21T13:22:00Z Alessandra Pellegrini, chief development officer for the Patrons, said 23 percent of Duomo visitors are from the United States, which is why the Italian-born American saint was chosen for the campaign. Anticipating a Crowd, Milan’s Cathedral Undergoes a Restoration 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Various passages mention Coleridge, Kafka, Proust, Freud and Lawrence, and at times O’Connor seems to be seeking a patron saint of literature. Flannery O’Connor Prayer Journal Published 2013-11-13T19:04:02Z I don’t style myself as any kind of saint. Talk: Joe Eszterhas Sure Cleaned Up 2012-02-02T22:07:16Z Out on the road, they meet a cast of characters who include saints, sinners, wide-boy rappers, bent lawyers, conmen and good samaritans. This week's new theatre 2013-03-09T06:00:16Z We weren't trying to create him as a saint, but show him as a human being with flaws. "MLK/FBI" director: "White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America" 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z His touching farewell show, “Depicting Duchamp,” includes a century’s worth of portraits, by more than 50 artists, of the gallery’s patron saint. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But that may be changing, in part thanks to an unlikely patron saint: the Man. Company-Paid Egg Freezing Will Be the Great Equalizer 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The shepherds are not simply ghostly or mythic in stanza four: their association with the remote "high roads" of "kings and saints" is also a function of their work. Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale 2013-01-14T10:31:49Z The relics of its namesake saint first put the town on the medieval map, drawing pilgrims from around Europe … until it was ransacked by Protestants, and its stones repurposed for newer buildings in town. St. Andrews: Hit the links, books and beach 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z They are allegories: narrative vessels into which meanings and morals are packed like raisins in an oatmeal cookie; modern, secular equivalents of medieval lives of the saints; cautionary tales and beacons of aspiration. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The families unquestioningly did whatever Adenwalla – who, I realised, was regarded as a saint – asked of them. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It's a far cry from the original, more solemn observances of St. Patrick's Day, Ireland's patron saint, which usually involved Irish Catholics attending morning mass and perhaps partaking in a feast later in the day. The curious history of green beer on St. Patrick's Day 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z During the chilling opening scene of the show's third season, a pair of cartel assassins is shown crawling to the saint's shrine in Mexico to request some divine help. `Breaking Bad' brings tourists to Albuquerque 2013-03-15T10:31:06Z PE: “Even though for much of our history we denied most people the vote and enslaved millions of people, hey, we stopped because the South lost the war — we’re just freakin’ saints!” Style Invitational Week 1451: Could have said it worse ourselves 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z To allow pilgrims to get close to the saint’s bones, a small arched opening, called the “Holy Hole,” was created at floor level. A London day trip to Winchester, England’s former royal capital 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z When a Texas cop manhandled a fourteen-year-old black girl at a pool party, Kelly pronounced the girl “no saint.” Megyn Kelly, the Glittering Aberration 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z But perhaps Mr. Patel is now ready to try his hand at a sinner, not a saint. Review: ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ Gives a Mathematical Genius His Due 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The “firemen” in “The Hairy Ape,” those men in the stokehole who feed the ship’s furnaces with coal, are anything but saints. Eugene O'Neill's 'The Hairy Ape' is a rallying cry for the Bernie Sanders crowd 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “Maybe that’s appropriate in a movie that treats its central character as a saint, for by the end of the film, Selena has been all but canonized.” What’s on TV Thursday: Joyce DiDonato and ‘First Wives Club’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z At a convenience store, they buy lottery tickets, scented oils and saint prayer cards,which they hawk to pedestrians. Review: To Be Young, Gay and Muslim in Bed-Stuy 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Instead, the talk is of "inspiring" music, "everyday saints", and great effort is made to include other religions, as long as they're not too, um, vociferous. Rewind radio: Good Morning Sunday; Pity the Poor Soccer Stars; 5Live Breakfast: Your Call – review 2013-01-26T22:30:01Z They see the belief in saints as a “recent” addition to the original Islam that was revealed to Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century A.D. The mosques that survived Palu’s tsunami and what that means 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Not that I should paint myself as some sort of exemplar, a Bill Hicks-like saint who held himself above the seductive lures of success. Alexei Sayle: 'I'm still full of hate' 2013-01-22T18:45:01Z The title refers to the adage that actions speak louder than words, but a movie that reduces children and parents to cardboard saints doesn’t say much. ‘Louder Than Words,’ on Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In Mexico, they are held to honor patron saints and are staples at birthday parties, weddings and funerals. Sharing Music Across the U.S.-Mexico Border’s Metal Fence 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The gulf between the Elliott Smith his friends remember, and the sad, sainted Elliott Smith that never was, began to widen. How ‘Either/Or’ made Elliott Smith a star, and why a tragic glamour lingers many years after his death 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z In “The Judge Hunter,” the only clear targets of his satire are the Puritan saints who populated New Haven, and readers are left to decide how much of it rubs off on contemporary Puritans. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He's definitely not a saint but this one seems more like a coached statement during an acrimonious divorce. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z In death, she became the patron saint of every coastal cool girl, every exhausted mother, every daydreamer of plane tickets, every chaser of her next broken heart. A New Story Collection and a Memoir by Lucia Berlin, Patron Saint of Soulful Cool 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z IN THE PAST, when people wondered how to live moral lives, they could look to the saints, or take their questions to church. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z She is described as part saint, part mythic figure, with the remoteness of one and the almost unhuman force of the other. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Even the Protestant Rembrandt felt a special affinity for Jerome, not as a Catholic saint, but as a humanist. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z She looked like an angel, a ghost, a saint, certainly not one of us. Review: Eiko’s ‘Platform 2016,’ With a Class, a Film and More 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z An exhibition exploring life’s key moments through the works of inventors, scientists, America’s founding fathers, dreamers and saints. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction But I think it's important too to put that out there, to show queer people who are whole and not heroes, not saints, but not evil monsters either. Why we all love "Somebody Somewhere" star Jeff Hiller: "Everybody feels like they're the outsider" 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Yes, religious literature is filled with patriarchs and saints enduring such trials. Review: 'The Thin Place' at Intiman ruminates on religion, lost and found 2010-05-24T23:08:00Z "For a weird kid like myself, who never felt like he belonged or fit in, Alan Turing wasn't just an inspiration — he was a patron saint." Oscars 2015: 'The Imitation Game' wins for adapted screenplay 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z No wonder the girl would prefer to suffer a saint’s gruesome tortures than live on as one more forsaken wife. ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ Review: Ye Olde Lady Bird 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The violinist stood on the rear stage like a soloist in a concerto while singers watched in awe, as if a statue of a saint can come to miraculous life. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Alas, our history — and even our recent past, in which Rudin, who habitually bullied his underlings, has been the pre-eminent presenter of “quality” commercial work — does not elevate the saints. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z A rival Free Society of Artists was set up by artists with a radical bent, with Hogarth their secular saint. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z A dress pattern is an Impressionist splash of color, faces are generic, bland, like those of wood-carved medieval saints. Art In Review: TOMOAKI SUZUKI 2012-11-29T20:26:18Z The research done, he tried to forget it all once the camera started rolling and just be Mark O’Brien, “neither victim nor saint.” Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions 2012-10-17T12:00:39Z While she has also has her critics, Mother Teresa is revered by Catholics for her work to help the poor, and was affectionately called the "saint of the gutters". In Skopje, residents proud of native Mother Teresa canonization 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Across the road, through a dense warren of mosques, graves and vendors of lamb and roses is the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya, the 13th-century Sufi saint from whom the neighborhood gets its name and lore. The Asia Issue: Asian Odysseys 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z I consulted my friend Candida Moss, an expert on saints. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Here’s who should be playing in the Super Bowl 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z He's regarded as a saint in UFO circles, largely for this book, a sober yet sympathetic overview of the UFO problem that excoriates the US Air Force for their failure to treat the phenomenon seriously. Mark Pilkington's top 10 books about UFOs 2010-09-01T11:29:00Z Lay gets better treatment by amateur Quaker historians, who include him in their pantheon of antislavery saints, and by the many excellent professional historians of Quakerism. A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to call Dr. Catena a living saint. Review: A Surgeon Performs Miracles in Sudan in ‘The Heart of Nuba’ 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z I wanted Martin to misbehave in the wake of Jonah’s detachment, because if he’s a saint, or just a doormat for this rogue kid, the story is less interesting. This Week in Fiction: Ben Marcus on the Cruelty of Children 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Its portrait of Berlin, and everyone around him except his sainted wife Ellin, is so sour and clammy that you might think it was written by a character assassin instead of a hagiographer. Review: Puttin’ on the Pathos in a Tribute to Irving Berlin 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z I don’t know why he needs to be seen as a saint. Abigail Disney Builds a Dialogue on Gun Control 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Those setting fire to stages in Manhattan and Brooklyn include a divinely demented silent screen star, a pointillist painter, a saint at the stake and, oh yes, Everybody. 5 Must-See Shows in New York This Month 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The Alongis chose the name because the saint is the patron of shoemakers and is pictured with tools in his hand, an image the brothers thought captured the handmade care behind their product. 'Eat Pray Love' exalts purists' gelato in Rome 2010-08-16T19:26:00Z For another column, I learned about 17th-century Mexicans who raised iridescent birds to supply feathers for mosaic portraits of Christian saints, which European royals hung on their palace walls. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z They track Meière artifacts needing conservation, including a rolled-up portrait of a saint at a suburban New York school and a New Jersey insurance company’s mosaic of Mediterranean landscapes. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z One of its themes is how political power is embodied in archetypical figures — the hero, the saint — and how those figures, as seen in art, change over time. 3 Knockout Art Shows to See in Los Angeles Right Now 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The scene depicted on the memorial is of a serene classical temple, peopled with allegorical figures in Grecian attire and Christian saints and martyrs, flanked by soldiers, women and children in contemporary dress. Big Rethinking: Classicism in the U.K. After World War I 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s also amusing to see Stevens, the British actor warmly remembered as Lady Mary’s sainted husband on Downton Abbey, slip into his new career playing scuzzy Yanks with a patina of class. Review: Liam Neeson Gets Taken on A Walk Among the Tombstones 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z More riveting are two pictures by Titian's own student, Paris Bordon, both showing mother and baby casually arrayed in the landscape with various saints. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Bergman, who had played a nun and a saint, became pregnant with their son, scandalizing the world. Ingrid Bergman, As Time Goes By 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z His figures, whether saints or mischievous sinners, are depicted with a naturalness which makes them stand apart from those of other painters of his time. Painter of our greatest fears 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It turns out that the sainted Will, who shows up at the very end of the movie, isn’t as heroic as Kevin had believed. Review: In ‘Night Owls,’ Staying Up Late Leads to Surprises 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In his brief appearance, he became the patron saint of any viewer who was ever forced to speak in public from the heart - and crumbled. MacFarlane proves he's an Oscar guy in hosting gig 2013-02-25T06:09:09Z For at least five centuries, the region, which includes Bari and its saint, was caught in constant wars for possession of southern Italy. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z He is typically referred to as a mystic, a saint, a Sufi, an enlightened man. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z But once in possession of political power, Shostakovich behaved not like a saint but like a politician. Was Shostakovich a Martyr? Or Is That Just Fiction? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Vodret said the most interesting element is the position and perspective of the saint, who's shown on the grill, one arm extended, his figure lit up. Painting at center of Caravaggio mystery unveiled 2010-07-27T12:25:00Z When she dared remarry, to shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, some onlookers were furious: “The reaction here is anger, shock and dismay,” reported the New York Times; a German newspaper claimed America had “lost a saint.” Perspective | Melania Trump is no Jackie O, but, yikes, who would want to be? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Griffiths handles the juggling act well, providing a cozy murder mystery amid a domestic drama that doesn't paint Galloway as a saint or Nelson as a sinner. 'The House at Sea's End': mysterious remains 2012-01-18T21:16:10Z And his wife is probably the greatest saint of all time. Toto's Steve Lukather remembers bassist Mike Porcaro 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z This demonstrates an awareness that the bones of saints would be sought, traded and sometimes stolen by the faithful, even within a few years of Christianity’s foundation. Relic hunter: A missing Christian relic, the fall of Nazi Germany and a mystery that flummoxed historians for centuries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Now in his late 70s, he came here from Iran in 1960 and went on to built sculptural tributes to several of this country’s canonical secular saints — Henry David Thoreau, Frank O’Hara, Walt Whitman. A Good Year for Younger Artists, Immigrant Citizens and Outrage 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Musicians are close to saints for us: they have such innate ability – you can't pretend, you can't just want to be it. DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus: 'A film-maker needs to watch like a cat' 2013-03-06T00:39:54Z He seems larger than life, an idol if not a saint. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z In grim times you have to believe — if not in saints, then at least in art. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Christians feared that the Muslims who now governed Demre would disregard the saint’s tomb. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The book also expresses anxiety that the world should not regard him as a saint. Nelson Mandela anguished over family's suffering, says book 2010-10-11T11:04:00Z And then there are those who say that the whole holy relics thing is made up; that the remains aren’t really those of the saint at all. In Old Goa, India, a saint’s relics raise mysterious questions I tried my Spanish on the sole attendant, and she pointed out for me the reliquaries to either side of the opulent nave, which contain, she said, an untold number of saints’ bones. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z In “Land of Hope and Dreams,” he writes about a train bound for glory that “carries saints and sinners, losers and winners.” An Appreciation: Yearning for Gift That Bruce Springsteen Gave Us 2012-09-17T17:00:27Z From that humble beginning arose the first cathedral, consecrated in 1954 as a shrine to the patron saint of local miners, the Virgin of the Rosary of Guasa. In Colombia, the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira is a pillar of spiritual strength 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Attributed to Gossart, this grisaille depiction of the saint crouched in the desert before a vision of the Crucifixion might almost be chiseled stone. Art Review: Rediscovering an Earthy Master 2010-10-07T21:50:00Z Finally, the doctrine of the preservation of the saints reminds us that God is never whimsical; once he grants salvation, he grants it forever. The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Look fast and you might easily confuse this for an Assumption of the Virgin, and indeed the saint was incorrectly identified when the Met bought the picture during its first year in business. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z I knew about it early, because I remember reading that Rita Moreno, the patron saint of Puerto Rican kids, had won all four prizes. Lin-Manuel Miranda Was Talking to Meryl Streep the Other Day 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The part of her life that fits least with the sad-sack saint myth is the most obvious one: her voice. Billie Holiday's Story Was Even More Complicated Than You Think 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The gang of plaster saints and a thud from the church caused me to stuff myself, like prepubescent pimento, into one end of the carpet. My obsessive quest to solve the mystery of a missing Virgin Mary 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The untamed saints overflow Dickey’s text, moving outward to occupy the internet: another desert of temptations, another kind of liturgy. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z A devil’s advocate ensures that the Church isn’t too quick to credit someone with the making of miracles; he prevents the naming of false saints. Play the devil’s advocate: Why even “celebrity journalists” should be harder on their subjects 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Unger tells us early and often that the “secular saint” advocated art’s value above and beyond its immediate political or commercial use. ‘A Life in Six Masterpieces’ provides insightful perspective on Michelangelo Her father is a pastor, and her mother, Meghan, strikes me as something of a saint. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But though his sympathy for the Trappists is evident, the film does not treat them as saints, or as mouthpieces for any particular theology. | 'Of Gods and Men': Between Heaven and Earth 2011-02-24T22:55:48Z “It’s a new community, a new religion really, that’s forming before our eyes,” he marvels after a street festival held in honor of the saint. The Contradictions of Reza Aslan’s “Believer” 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z This last song is like some ancient saint has looked something terrible in the face and come back from that only interested in talking about love. To Play Hamlet, Alex Lawther Became an ‘Expert on Grief’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Joyce was, in short, an icon, the saint of modern literature. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style Saint Vitus was a fourth-century Sicilian martyr who became the patron saint of entertainers and epileptics. Music Review: Saint Vitus, the Band, at Saint Vitus, the Bar 2012-09-26T22:12:19Z Still, the facts are as hard as a gravestone: No saint interceded to fill her son’s lungs. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z A stolen 14th century illustration of a Roman Catholic saint was returned on Friday to Italy, where it will be put in a museum, U.S. United States returns stolen 14th century image of saint to Italy 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Not that all of his characters are saints. This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Now, the self-appointed "patron saint of facial hair" has a new single, a new message, and even some new facial hair. "What took you so long?" Mustache icon John Oates on being the furry face of Movember 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z In a room full of funereal figures, Mr. Echols paused to contemplate a wooden figure of a saint, and I waited for him to say something profound. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z "He was a true saint," Schwarzenegger told several hundred people at a "Celebration of Life" gathering at the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills. Jack LaLanne eulogized in Calif as 'true saint' 2011-02-01T23:10:11Z When the magazine Wired made its debut in 1993, it declared McLuhan to be its patron saint. Early Media Prophet Is Now Getting His Due 2011-07-25T22:25:36Z They depict Jesus, saints and angels against backdrops of streaky skies, wearing jeweled headdresses and robes made of milky glass layers. 2010-02-12T00:03:00Z Above all, there is Collins’s avowed obsession to resist what she sees as the American tendency to idealize black characters — to depict them as “sinners or saints.” The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z In the Nigerian queer scene, there are no sinners and no saints. ‘The Legend of the Underground’ Review: Gay Activism in Nigeria 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z He's never a saint and far from rational. Holocaust drama 'In Darkness': An unlikely hero rises from sewers 2012-03-08T21:59:06Z Could this unusual format partly be a recollection of devotional church icons of St. James, patron saint of Spain and laborers like himself? The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Luke tried a bit of everything and then asked if the robed saint in the icon on the wall was Obi-Wan Kenobi. In Sicily, Tasting Seafood With a Skeptical Son 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Their patron saint is Aaron Franklin in Austin, who opened his bricks-and-mortar operation six years ago. This is the future of barbecue: No regions, no rules, lots of innovation 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z His wife must have the patience of a saint. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Initially represented in standing portraits, they were then depicted on horseback, and, later, reclining or lying in repose, in the manner of saints or the dead Christ. Kehinde Wiley on Painting the Powerless. And a President. 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Liza, the late vehicle for said sainted mother-using, definitely lost as well. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon and Falcone Fight Back 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Before approximately the year 1000, saints were named by the local bishop. Who becomes a saint in the Catholic Church, and is that changing? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z One day, perhaps, Sister Maria will be installed as the patron saint of the Cannes film festival. Cannes festival diary: day 10 2013-05-24T12:17:45Z “At the time I didn’t know much about Christianity and the church. But as a professor, I studied saints and the history of the church and this got me closer to it again.” The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Christ's scrawniness, and slumped head, hark back to austere 15th century examples by Donatello and Masaccio; his isolation, and the absence of other saints, accords with the Lutheran emphasis on Christ and his passion. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Van Gogh is, of course, the patron saint of all those who romanticize a link between mental illness and creativity. Perspective | How Hannah Gadsby’s evisceration of Picasso helped her change stand-up comedy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Not like this, I knew, otherwise only saints and the senseless would choose to carry a child. Motherlode Blog: Prenatal Depression: What I Didn’t Expect When I Was Expecting 2013-12-08T13:34:22Z Lydia is an emblem of black female empowerment, but she's no plaster saint. "Southland": TV's best cop show survives -- and thrives 2011-03-01T15:02:00Z “I assume the patron saint of bad gifts, because that’s how we express our love on Valentine’s Day.” Valentine’s Day? How about we just don’t. 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The saint’s upturned eyes glow in the hard light through tall windows. Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? 2011-08-09T17:39:27Z Some fragments of bone that made their way to the sacristies and reliquaries of Europe were surely once a part of this saint or that. What you don’t know about the Holy Grail 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Smith, 65, who is most famous for her 1978 song "Because the Night," meditated before the stone tomb of the saint and then joined the brown-robed monks for a frugal lunch in the refectory. Punk "godmother" Patti Smith pays homage to St Francis in Assisi 2012-07-25T16:24:17Z One issue that deeply worried me in prison was the false image I unwittingly projected to the outside world; of being regarded as a saint. Nelson Mandela anguished over family's suffering, says book 2010-10-11T11:04:00Z Michael LandyKinetic sculptures made from scrap illuminate the lives of the saints in Landy's playful take on the National Gallery collection.• Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art 2013-05-17T15:40:31Z In a promotional video, he said he hoped his film would stop people treating priests as saints: “They’re not saints. They just wear cassocks.” Movie about corrupt priests outrages politicians in Catholic Poland 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Patron saint of the island’s land preservation movement, the venerable editor of the Vineyard Gazette could, for decades, be seen walking one of a series of Scotch collies around the byways of Edgartown. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z Canonized as a saint in 2002, he is shown as a bespectacled, unnaturally cheerful goody-good who suffers a mild crisis of faith from which he emerges with a broader smile than ever. | 'There Be Dragons': A Guess-the-Flavoring Game, and Then Along Comes a War 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z Even our sainted Senator Hanson, we learn, is married to her best friend’s ex-husband, and there was some overlap — the would-be V.P. is a homewrecker! ‘The Contender’ Lit Me on Fire. Now It’s a Cringe Factory. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z "Seward was not a saint, he was a practical politician, and he was prepared if necessary to use dubious means to achieve great goals," Stahr writes. 'Seward': a new biography of Lincoln's right-hand man 2012-09-26T22:15:06Z Dickey places the question of the saints’ humanity at the core of his meditation on these extreme figures, tortured souls marginalized in their lifetimes yet enjoying raucous afterlives in literature, film, and painting. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Susan Bernard, in her fulsome style, describes Marilyn in this scene as "a patron saint, in the image of an angel bearing wings". John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z "She's not a saint/And she's not what you think," she spits out on "Better Than Revenge," seething over losing someone to a predatory woman. Taylor Swift is angry, darn it 2010-10-23T00:16:00Z Dean resurrects this beloved saint in Russian history who cared for the poor, juxtaposing the crudest poverty and extravagant displays of wealth in a mesmerizing, spare style. 'The Mirrored World': the clash of faith and reason in 1700s St. Petersburg 2012-09-06T20:20:04Z Narrating the action is the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, the patron saint of laissez-faire capitalists, who argued that each person’s self-interested pursuit would automatically maximize the public good. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z In a moving juxtaposition of youthful and mature artistry, tenor Joshua Guerrero melded his sound with Domingo’s during the famously pleasing “Au fond du temple saint” from Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers.” With some big opera names behind it, Young Artist Program aims even higher 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The sort of woman such an Anglican saint requires should be "passionate yet circumspect". Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z The guy’s a king in so many different ways – a saint to some, a villain to others. Myth and fact mix in summer of Escobar as narco king’s life hits the screen 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z He was at his best, more elegant and subtle, in a duet with Mr. Gunn, “Au fond du temple saint,” from Bizet’s “Pearl Fishers.” Music Review: Met?s Summer Recital Series Kicks Off in Central Park 2010-07-13T22:57:00Z When there are saints, there is no room for dissidents.” Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z In a hyper-partisan era in which politicians are viewed either as a saint or a devil, All the Way bravely refuses such a narrow perspective. Why is Lyndon B Johnson suddenly prevalent in pop culture? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Helen Keller is one of the closest things the United States has to a secular saint. ‘Her Socialist Smile’ Review: Helen Keller, Radical 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z These page-long tributes, alongside paintings that look as if they belong on the side of votive candles, offer a new set of role models and heroes — “matron saints” — for the feminist future. New & Noteworthy 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z And yet they also help us measure time, with each saint traditionally assigned to a day of the liturgical year. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Speaking of which, in February, Zucker and Harris recorded audio and shot photos at the Art Institute of Chicago for a video about how to recognize saints. How two professors transformed the teaching of art history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z You say this is due to "Maud Karpeles, Sharp's faithful assistant ... who fiercely protected his legacy ... writing an anodyne biography that depicted him as a saint". Response: This great folk song collector was not a controlling manipulator 2011-04-01T07:00:02Z The procession takes the saint’s figure to face a chosen member of the local brotherhood who thanks St. Sebastian for keeping the town safe and healthy one more year. AP PHOTOS: Beast-like ‘Carantoñas’ return to Spanish town 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The celebration of that famous snake-banishing saint is now best remembered as the day that people in Guinness hats stagger around central London, trying to remember an Irish grandmother. This week's new events 2013-03-15T17:27:46Z The existing church, begun in 1783 and never quite finished, is an astoundingly intact example of Spanish colonial architecture, alive with saints and angels. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z About 650 artifacts are arranged by form and function, including vases, enameled floral jewelry and church windows molded with translucent saints. Antiques: Suddenly, Lalique Is Back in Vogue 2011-06-23T21:22:39Z Any tourist in Europe will stumble across holy relics, often the bones of saints, venerated in cathedrals and chapels. Quirky European sights, from Lennon ‘love wall’ to salt mines 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z |
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