This book is not made up of the conventional stories served in the Polish religious supermarket. It's a private sleuth-story in quest of the Polish saints and the figures of those who will never be canonised...
What is the role the bones of the saints have played and now play for the people of Poland? What has been behind the pastel-tinted martyrdoms of the holy pictures? Why did so many of the Polish saints come from other nations and why has the Austrian Church sometimes been more important for them that the Vatican? This book is not made up of the conventional stories served in the Polish religious supermarket. It's a private sleuth-story in quest of the Polish saints and the figures of those who will never be canonised.
"Zbigniew Mikołejko is going to make a lot of enemies with this book. Written in a colourful and lively style, it's full of fruity quotes and steeped in commitment. But it breaks free from the traditional way of writing about the saints and - what's worse - about our Polish saints. For many it will be iconoclastic." (Adam Szostkiewicz)
Zbigniew Mikołejko (b. 1951), philosopher and religions historian, head of the Department of the Philosophy of Religion in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
- Zbigniew Mikołejko
Amended Lives of the Saints / Żywoty świętych poprawione
Wydawnictwo W.A.B, Warszawa 2000
translation rights: Wydawnictwo W.A.B, rights available
150 x 208, 400 pages, hardcover
ISBN 83-88221-4-2