
My Badass Book of Saints
Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live
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Winner of a 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award: Inspirational Books (First Place).
In this edgy, honest, and often audacious book of Catholic spirituality, blogger and popular podcaster Maria Morera Johnson explores the qualities of 24 holy women who lived lives of virtue in unexpected and often difficult circumstances.
In My Badass Book of Saints, Johnson shares her experience as a first-generation Cuban-American, educator of at-risk college students, and caregiver for a husband with Lou Gehrig's disease. Through humorous, empowering, and touching portraits of 24 spiritual mentors who inspired her, Johnson describes how their bravery, integrity, selflessness, perseverance, and hope helped her and can help others have courage to reach for a closer connection to God.
She presents remarkable holy women and saints - including the gun-toting Servant of God Sr. Blandina Segale who tried to turn the heart of Billy the Kid and Nazi resister Irena Sendler who helped smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II - in a way that brings their vivid personalities to life and helps listeners live out the challenges of their lives with virtue and conviction.
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- Barbara
- 08-13-19
Awesome Book!
This is a great way to introduce some of our incredible saints. It really describes their character and virtues in an entertaining way. I love how Maria shows how each saint has personally added to her journey. We all need saints in our lives to help us everyday and Maria introduces us to some good ones we may turn to.
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- Paula
- 06-03-19
Yeah for Women Saints!
I love this book. The presentation is great! The material is great, written with just enough Sass to make you laugh out loud. As a new Catholic it was educational, enlightening and made me love the idea that Saints weren't at all stuffy, perfect or otherwise out of reach to the mere woman. GREAT Book, couldn't wait to jump in the car to commute home every night to listen.
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- Elizabeth
- 03-04-22
Love!!
Love this book!!! 2nd go around and I keep learning more each time. Great way to get interested in Saints of all kinds learning just a little to go off and learn more able all the amazing women in this book. They did a really good job of incorporating personal life story’s with Saints of the past and not so distant past. A nice short read but opens up to hours of discussion.
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- Patricia
- 04-03-22
My Badass Book of Saints
This is an uplifting book with a mixture of the writer's personal experiences with stories of Catholic female saints. The writer's personal stories are experiences the majority of us can relate to. The saint stories are inspirational.
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- just a girl
- 09-16-19
Loved, Loved, Loved this book
Well done Maria. Light, Funny and full beautiful examples of how our friends, our saint are with us today showing us the way to Christ-filled lives. I will listen to this book more than once and have ordered the hard copy to share with others. God Bless you.
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