Top 10 Evil Saints

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St Maria Maddalena De’ Pazzi who was born in 1566 in Florence tortured herself from childhood
and died when she was thirty-three. She slept on the floor and rolled in nettles and thorns. She
had healing powers and could float in mid-air. She was stigmatized at 19. Her penances have
been described as unbelievable. Seemingly as a grim trophy for breaking the world record for
self-abuse, her intact body reposes in a glass case in the Carmelite Church of Florence. There is
no scientific explanation for why she has not decayed simply because science has not got the
chance to examine her right. It would be an evil miracle for that lady fasted continuously and
miraculously for years on bread and water and claimed she ate nothing else which is a
dangerous example for anorexics. She used to be found with food presses open but her excuse
was that demons did it to tempt her to break her holy fast (page 37, From Fasting Saints to
Anorexic Girls). Some miracle. Her stigmata must have been dubious as well when her miracle
fast was a hoax.

2.
St Veronica Guilani was caught raiding the larder too though she claimed to be fasting by virtue
of a miracle. But this did not stop the Church making a saint of her. The excuse given was that it
was a demon in her form that was seen gorging down food in the kitchen (ibid page 37). What
point would there be in God doing a miracle when he is going to let a demon do that for then
you end up guessing that the miracle was true which spoils the whole point of doing the miracle.
She was a stigmatist too which indicates how miraculous her wounds were. Bizarrely, she prayed
that the wounds would become invisible to prevent the bishop and other examining them for it
was so painful (page 139, The Bleeding Mind). What use would an invisible miracle be to other
people and God isn’t going to do a miracle just for her. When she wanted to keep the wounds
why should she have minded the bishop hurting her for they couldn’t have been any sorer
anyway. She hinted that she was faking her wounds.

3.
Blessed Elizabeth of Reute who died in 1420 was another stigmatist who claimed to have
lived for years without any food though food had been found under her bed (page 37,
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls). Again, it was assumed the Devil put it there.
Saints who can live for years without food, in many cases living on the consecrated wafer
at Mass alone for years, are shown to be less convincing when there are several cases of
people like Barbara Kremers from Germany who were eventually caught though
everybody was sure they were for real for they had been watched continuously to see if
they were eating on the sly and had done nothing suspicious.

4.
St John Mary Vianney the patron saint of parish priests is one of Catholicism’s best-
known saints. He ascribed the miracles that are now attributed to him to St Philomena
(page 77, Church and Infallibility). He should be taken at his word for he would know
best. The trouble is that it became so clear that this child-martyr saint never existed that
the Church recently dropped her from the list of saints though Leo XII made her a saint
and Pius XI created a Mass in her honour (another warning that the Church approval for a
cult be it based on a saint or an apparition is not necessarily well-founded). It is not so
keen however to see his miracles as satanic fakes or at least as evidence that miracles
cannot prove any religious thesis which would be the logical conclusion. It uses them as
proof that Vianney was a saint.
5.
St Augustine of Hippo advocated converting heretics and Donatists by coercion.
Firmicus Maternus came along and wanted paganism suppressed by violence so that his
Christian faith overcome it and destroy it. He wrote On the Error of Profane Religions
about 346 AD and used the Bible to argue for persecution. Augustine came along
roughly the same time and used his horrendously great influence to force conversion on
others on the basis that to be killed was better than to be given the freedom to err in
religious matters. He denied that God would be so evil as to predestine people to eternal
damnation and yet he inconsistently claimed that God predestines some not all to
everlasting life which amounts to saying the same thing. This dollop of hypocrisy and
hatred and blasphemy was at the root of his theology and his spiritual life which shows
that if he is a saint Karl Marx has more right to be one. Augustine believed that the
doctrine he believed as a Manichaean that evil was a real thing which proved there had to
be a bad God and a good one was wrong for evil was just the absence of good and not a
power. The man was saying then that God was not doing wrong by making poisonous
snakes for evil is just a falling short of good! He was a major promoter of the lie that you
love the sin and hate the sin as if to say that an act is hateful is not the same thing as to
say the person that freely creates the act is not though it clearly is. All the saints, miracles
and apparitions of the Catholic support this lie for it is a bedrock of the Church and to
support the Church is to support it.
6.
St Alphonsus De Ligouri, a bishop who founded the Redemptorists, was notorious for
wresting the Bible out of context to fool his naïve flock. For example, he said once that
King David stated in Psalm 20:10 that the bodies of the damned will be like furnaces of
fire (page 91, Sermons of St Alphonsus Liguori) though there is no evidence that the
Psalm had Hell in mind at all. Countless examples could be given. He also interpreted
Ecclesiastes 7:19 as saying the vengeance on the wicked will be worms and fire as
referring to Hell (page 90) which is out of context for never does the Old Testament
mention the everlasting burning Hell of the Christians. The man who twists the word of
God would twist anything.
7.

St Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was a Carmelite nun who was canonized in 1925. She
is nicknamed The Little Flower. Her book, Story of a Soul, is the reason for the fame she
has and she has been proclaimed patroness of missionaries even though she never worked
as a missionary. She boasted contradicting the Bible which says that everybody sins that
she never committed even a venial sin since she was three. She was no saint. Yet her
autobiography speaks of her terrible depressions and fits of crying and her temptation to
commit suicide due to her conviction that she would never get into Heaven. Her
spirituality did this to her and we are led to believe that this was not sinful! Of course if
sin is possible it would have to be. Her example to the world is worrying. Life comes first
and it is better to be a sinner in the world than a suicidal nun than to take the risk of a
mental or spiritual breakdown that may result in suicide. Her appeal lies in her detailing
how she struggled against temptation. She had very human temptations which she
claimed to have resisted. She boasted that friendship based on affection though she had a
very affectionate nature was something she avoided for she was bad at attracting friends
and that affection of this kind for others was a poison. She said that feelings for others are
always bad for they block or reduce one’s intimate union with God.
8.
Saint Nicholas Carruti of Tolentine (1245-1305) was an Augustinian priest. The big
devotion of his life was to pray for the souls in Purgatory. His fasts were so long that he
ended up getting visions of the dead. His friends said these visions were caused by these
long fasts. The Church through Pope Leo XIII canonized this man in 1884 despite
knowing that somebody who starves themselves until they hallucinate is not a good role
model for believers. It gives the message that such behavior is sanctioned by God.
9.

Cipriano was a professional magician in Antioch, Pisidia, who originally was a native of
Carthage. Cipriano mastered the art of magic and became known as a great sorcerer. It
was said he could produce rain and thunder and call forth spirits from their graves. He
sold many love-philtres and other potions, charms, and incantations. He practiced a strict
diet of plain food, including acorns, and no bread. In his travels, Cipriano had acquired
several esoteric manuscripts and having compiled spells and esoteric knowledge from
diverse sources. He also composed his own book(s) so that others might also study these
things. Awed by the strength of the faith of Santa Giustina (Saint Justina) and inspired by
the power of her God, Cipriano was converted to Christianity and baptized by Anthimus,
the Bishop of Antioch. He burned his magic books. San Cipriano became a priest and
became Santa Giustina's brother in Christ. Eventually, San Cipriano became the Bishop
of Antioch.

10.
Known as Guatemala’s evil saint, Maximon is thought to blend parts of a pre-Spanish
Mayan god known as Maam, a god of the underworld, with the Christian Saint Simon.
The name “Maximon,” pronounced “mah-SHEE-mon” is a combination of “Maam” and
“Simon”. Locals take Maximon very seriously and visit with gifts of money, rum, and
cigars or cigarettes. He is always flanked by his caretakers who keep his cigar lit and help
you share the rum with him. The ashes of his cigar are carefully scraped off and later sold
as a cure for influenza. Tourists are allowed to pay their respects to Maximon, but he can
be difficult to find as he moves to a new house every year. It is considered a great honor
to be chosen as the new home of Maximon. Another note to tourists is that Maximon has
set visiting hours and is given a significant time to “sleep” every day. Visitors that try to
bribe their way in to see him during his sleeping time must beware if they wake the evil
spirit! The wrath of Maximon is not to be taken lightly.