Strange Catholicism! is a 68-page issue of The Margins about saints who flew, mystics who saw Jesus, bleeding grandfathers, glowing houses, moving relics, angelic postal services, and all the strange little corners of Catholicism that refuse to behave themselves.
This issue is a loose, playful companion to by book A Catechism of the Strange. The book asks what these phenomena mean for the spiritual life.
This issue asks:
Okay, but what about all the really weird stuff?
Inside:
The Transcendental of the Strange
On wonder, beauty, altar bells, blinking crucifixes, and why the strange can become a doorway toward God.
The Secret Code: Look for Christ
A simple guide for reading Catholic mystical phenomena: wounds, resurrection, light, bodies, and theosis.
Too Weird for the Book
Case files on Irving Houle, the Grandpa Stigmatist; Marcel Van and his friendship with St. Thérèse; Rhoda Wise and her reportedly glowing house; the mysterious blinking crucifix of Ambridge; and the St. Gemma relic that turned out to have a very ordinary explanation.
Modern Mystics Who Saw Jesus
Firsthand testimonies and accounts from Père Jean-Édouard Lamy, Simone Weil, and Sr. Josefa Menéndez—including Jesus appearing in an orchard, a mysterious stranger sharing bread and wine, and a bloodied vision of Christ after the scourging.
Saints Who Flew
St. Joseph of Cupertino and Christina the Astonishing, who reportedly took Catholic mysticism’s ongoing disagreement with gravity to its logical conclusion.
Plus: St. Gemma’s guardian angel postal service, Jesus looking like a scarecrow, a stigmatist grandpa with a Miller Lite, Mother Angelica’s strange connection to Rhoda Wise, levitating saints, theosis, private revelation, wonder, blood, relics, and considerably more Catholic weirdness.
Details:
68 printed pages
Small batch, limited copies
Written and created by W. Tyler Allen of St. Anthony’s Tongue
Some of these stories are approved. Some are unresolved. Some are private mystical claims. One was an air conditioner.
You do the discerning.
Enter the strange.
Strange Catholicism! is a 68-page issue of The Margins about saints who flew, mystics who saw Jesus, bleeding grandfathers, glowing houses, moving relics, angelic postal services, and all the strange little corners of Catholicism that refuse to behave themselves.
This issue is a loose, playful companion to by book A Catechism of the Strange. The book asks what these phenomena mean for the spiritual life.
This issue asks:
Okay, but what about all the really weird stuff?
Inside:
The Transcendental of the Strange
On wonder, beauty, altar bells, blinking crucifixes, and why the strange can become a doorway toward God.
The Secret Code: Look for Christ
A simple guide for reading Catholic mystical phenomena: wounds, resurrection, light, bodies, and theosis.
Too Weird for the Book
Case files on Irving Houle, the Grandpa Stigmatist; Marcel Van and his friendship with St. Thérèse; Rhoda Wise and her reportedly glowing house; the mysterious blinking crucifix of Ambridge; and the St. Gemma relic that turned out to have a very ordinary explanation.
Modern Mystics Who Saw Jesus
Firsthand testimonies and accounts from Père Jean-Édouard Lamy, Simone Weil, and Sr. Josefa Menéndez—including Jesus appearing in an orchard, a mysterious stranger sharing bread and wine, and a bloodied vision of Christ after the scourging.
Saints Who Flew
St. Joseph of Cupertino and Christina the Astonishing, who reportedly took Catholic mysticism’s ongoing disagreement with gravity to its logical conclusion.
Plus: St. Gemma’s guardian angel postal service, Jesus looking like a scarecrow, a stigmatist grandpa with a Miller Lite, Mother Angelica’s strange connection to Rhoda Wise, levitating saints, theosis, private revelation, wonder, blood, relics, and considerably more Catholic weirdness.
Details:
68 printed pages
Small batch, limited copies
Written and created by W. Tyler Allen of St. Anthony’s Tongue
Some of these stories are approved. Some are unresolved. Some are private mystical claims. One was an air conditioner.
You do the discerning.
Enter the strange.
