Queer Saints: A Radical Guide to Magic, Miracles, and Modern Intercession

Saints are the powerful, benevolent dead. They remain connected to the living to provide assistance, especially in times of need.Everyone has patron saints, even the marginalized who may feel abandoned and removed from these spiritual traditions. Antonio Pagliarulo, author of The Evil Eye, grew up among Italian immigrants, practitioners of folk magic and saint veneration, in New York City.Pagliarulo, a lifelong lover of saints, seeks to bring their blessings to those who have long felt cut off from these traditions. Queer Saints: A Radical Guide to Magic, Miracles, and Modern Intercession is a contemporary reimagining of an ancient spiritual practice-the intercessory power of saints. “Intercession” is typically defined as the action of intervening for another.Saints intervene with the highest powers on behalf of their devotees to provide them with protection, safety, prosperity, healing, and fulfillment of needs and desires. Saints derive from many spiritual and religious traditions, n