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...Reluctant Saint. Maximilian Schell attains new histrionic heights in the amusing, amazing story of San Giuseppe of Cupertino (1603-63), a saint who could literally...
Partly they were right; partly they were wrong. Little Giuseppe grew up to be San Giuseppe of Cupertino, one of the strangest saints in the Roman Catholic calendar...
Italian priest Joseph of Cupertino in The Reluctant Saint, both scheduled for release later this year. He is now in hot demand, and his next film will probably be Jean-Paul Sartre's The Prisoners of Altona, with Sophia Loren, to be directed by Vittorio De Sica...
...Middle Ages must have seemed sometimes like a miraculous three-ring circus. Saintly men and ladies flew through the air with the greatest of ease-sometimes even their personal effects followed them, as did the walking stick of Joseph of Cupertino-and sometimes, like the great St. Teresa of Avila, they had to be held down by main force. Bodies that should have been moldering in the grave were exhumed fresh and fragrant; sometimes they bled, as did that of St. John of the Cross when they cut off its finger. The Host at Mass once leapt by itself into...
...17th-Century Italian Franciscan is rapidly becoming the patron saint for Allied airmen. He is St. Joseph of Cupertino, who from his eighth year was subject to ecstatic visions. "Frequently," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "he would be raised from his feet and remain suspended in the air." Hence his designation as the protector of flyers, who now wear his medal on two continents...