Last week, I raised a question that many people in today’s modern democracies sometimes wonder about: Can a politician be a saint? I pointed out that there are rare examples of such cases in history and cited Louis IX of France, Saint Louis (1214–1270). This would prove that a saint can be a politician but Continue reading Martyrs, Money and the Manufacture of Political Holiness
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