00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:02:05 Simeon Stylites: Thirty-Seven Years on a Pillar
00:08:40 Christina the Astonishing: The Saint Who Flew From Her Coffin
00:14:47 Saint Denis: The Man Who Carried His Own Head
00:20:13 Saint Lawrence: Roasted Alive and Still Joking About It
00:26:06 Saint Wilgefortis: The Bearded Woman on the Cross
00:32:06 Saint Drogo: Too Ugly to Look At, Patron Saint of Coffee
00:39:59 Saint Expeditus: The Saint Who Might Be a Shipping Label
00:46:55 Saint Joseph of Cupertino: The Friar Who Kept Flying
00:52:59 Saint Guinefort: The Holy Greyhound


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Sources and Further Reading

Frankfurter, David (ed.). 2019. Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic. [Background on stylite asceticism.]
Thomas de Cantimpré. c. 1232. Vita Christinae Mirabilis. Trans. Margot King, 1999.
Réau, Louis. 1958. Iconographie de l'art chrétien. [Cephalophore saints and iconography.]
Delehaye, Hippolyte. 1907. The Legends of the Saints. Trans. Donald Attwater, 1962.
Voltaire. 1764. Dictionnaire philosophique.
Réau, Louis. 1957. "Le Culte de Sainte Wilgeforte." Revue des Traditions Populaires.
Farmer, David Hugh. 2011. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. 5th edition.
Schmitt, Jean-Claude. 1983. The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century.
Parisciani, Gustavo. 1963. Vita di San Giuseppe da Copertino.
Attwater, Donald and John, Catherine Rachel. 1995. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition.

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