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Saints Preserve Us is an irreverent but informative show that chronicles the bizarre lives, often equally bizarre deaths, and posthumous mythologies of Catholic Saints. It's a glorious mash-up of true-life crime documentaries, shocking but true historical exposés, reassuring spiritual feel-goodery, and gory examinations of mankind's exaltations and depravations.
Each episode will showcase specific saints examining their lives, the art they've inspired, and the legacies they've left behind. Through the lens of these misfits, martyrs, and messiahs we will also explore themes and topics that are relevant to the culture today including political division, apocalyptic fixation, quests for revenge, women's rights, racial inequality, life, death, and the debate over free will versus determinism. We'll interview members of the clergy, art historians, religious studies professors, theologians, and luminaries from the world of literature and pop culture who can offer insight into the pantheon of Saints, their meaning, their significance, their impact on our society and how they can help us understand our current moment.
Every week the show will also feature our in-house Saints experts and award-winning authors of the book Saints Preserve Us, Sean Kelly and Rosemary Rogers. Sean Kelly was the editor of National Lampoon from 1971 to 1978 during which he "broke his own record for obscurantism, reach an apotheosis with a dense parody of Finnegan's Wake." In 1975 he was a founding editor of Heavy Metal, the adult fantasy magazine, and as a freelance writer, he has been published in Bazaar, Benneton’s Colors, Interview, Irish America Magazine, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Playboy, SPY, The Village Voice, & the Quarterly of Joyce Studies. He reviewed a great many children’s books for the New York Times and created material for John Candy, George Carlin, Jane Curtin, Robert Klein, Steve Martin, Martin Mull, Gilda Radner, & Jonathan Winters.
Rosemary Rogers is an author, humorist, and former music producer whose eight books have been published by Random House, Villard, St. Martin’s Press, Hearst, Barnes & Noble, and City Lights. She collaborated with Sean Kelly on the bestseller Saints Preserve Us, currently in its 18th international printing. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, O. The Oprah Magazine, Oprah: Live Your Best Life, and Irish America, where she contributed to the magazine, website, and podcast and has been running her ongoing series “Wild Women.” She also frequently collaborates with her husband, Robert Downey, Sr.
Sean and Rosemary are joined each week by their producer and co-host Christian O’Toole, former Director of Video and Podcast Producer for Men’s Journal and story producer and editor of two documentary features on psilocybin assisted therapy, Focus on Clinical Research: Part One - The Johns Hopkins Stoy and Focus on Clinical Research: Part 2 - Death, Dying and Psychedelics.
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Saint Patrick
It's the day for the wearing of the green and you would think with names like O'Toole, Kelly and Rogers our hosts would be extremely reverential of the patron Saint of Ireland (and Nigeria) but you would be wrong. Turns out the guy's name was Succat and he wasn't even Irish! Learn more about this unofficial patron Saint of drunken pub crawls and his connection to the Springfield tradition of whacking day on this week's episode.
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Saint Valentine's Day
Saints Preserve Us returns for season two with an exploration of the history of Saint Valentine and how he inspired the modern romantic holiday that is now celebrated in his name. Along the way we learn how he sent the first valentine note ever while in jail waiting to have his head cut off. We find out which of Valentine's relics reside in the Church of the Metastasis of the Virgin Mary on the Island of Lesbos and we ponder the love of Spartan warriors for their fellow men.
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Ep. 16 - The End of Ordinary Time with St. Nicholas & Christ the King of the Universe
In this episode we recognize the End of Ordinary Time and the end of Season One of Saints Preserve Us. Along the way we acknowledge The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe and discuss a little celebration that happens around his birth, which was overshadowed this year by our grander celebration of Michaelmas. We also highlight some other December Saints, most notably Jolly Old Saint Nick and learn how New York City invented Christmas as we know it today to stop the Irish from getting drunk and running wild in the streets. We recount the horrific details of the tragic death of teen martyr Saint Eulalia and wonder why so many stories of Saints from December involve people being put in barrels. And finally Sean shares a memory from his childhood of a special feast that used to be celebrated on January first but now must never be spoken of under penalty of excommunication.
It's been a wild and wonderful first season of Saints Preserve Us and we want to thank all of our listeners and our esteemed guests. Stay tuned for Saintly Stories in 2022!
Until then check out the book that started it all at:
https://www.amazon.com/Saints-Preserve-Us-Everything-About/dp/067975038X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2X4P0XHMQJ8VB&keywords=saints+preserve+us&qid=1641343677&sprefix=saints%2520preserve%2520u%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-2
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Ep. 15 - Saints Who Performed Abortions With Maeve Callan
On this episode we are joined by Maeve Callan Chair of the Religion Department, Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Co-Director of the Interfaith Fellows Program and Professor of Religion at Simpson College in Iowa, and author of The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish, to discuss the sure to be uncontroversial topic of four Irish Saints who were said to have miraculously ended unwanted pregnancies. We also explore the history of the Catholic Church's stance on abortion and finally talk about our co-host Christian O'Toole's very distant relative Saint Lawrence O'Toole.
You can read Maeve Callan's article that kicked off this whole kerfuffle here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/saints-once-did-abortions-it-was-a-lesser-sin-than-oral-sex-1.3466881
And you can find Maeve's book on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Templars-Witch-Wild-Irish-Vengeance/dp/1501713566
You can also read more about the Church's historical positions on abortion in Molly Monk's article for The Outline.com: https://theoutline.com/post/8536/catholic-history-abortion-brigid
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Ep. 14 - Santa Muerte & Malachy O'More in Folk vs. Canonized Saints
In this episode we apologize for an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary depicted as a skeleton that was posted to our Twitter account on Halloween, and we explore the controversial kerfuffle kicked off by the image around the Mexican cult figure and folk-Catholic, but unofficial, Saint: Santa Muerte. We then turn to a Saint officially recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, Malachy O'More, a reformer of the Irish liturgy and the first Irish Saint to be officially Canonized. We learn about Malachy's dire predictions of the rise of the Anti-Pope/Antichrist that could be coming soon. And finally, we delight in the story of Saint Rumwold, the miraculous baby Saint who lived all of three days but still managed to declare himself a Christian, request baptism, and preach a sermon before he died.
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Ep. 13 - All Hallows & Incorruptible Saints with Elizabeth Harper
On this very special All Hallows Spooky Saint Spectacular, we learn about the Saintly origins of Halloween and dive deep into the mysterious world of incorrupt Saints with writer and photographer Elizabeth Harper of All the Saints You Should Know, who has faced and photographed these Saintly relics in person around the world. From martyrs whose exquisite corpses never decompose to the bejeweled skeletal remains of the catacomb Saints, we explore the uncanny valley of Saints who exist in a spiritual world somewhere between life and death.
Christian also makes his Halloween pitch for our listeners to check out Midnight Mass on Netflix for some high-end Catholic horror from director Mike Flanagan and his wife Kate Siegel.
You can check out Elizabeth Harper's wonderfully creepy blog All the Saints You Should Know at: http://www.allthesaintsyoushouldknow.com/
And follow her on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/CadaverFormosus
Also check out Midnight Mass on Netflix at: https://www.netflix.com/title/81083626
And finally, follow Saints Preserve Us at: https://twitter.com/SaintsPreserve
Happy All Hallows, All Saints & All Souls Day to one and all!
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