The Saint Louis Tribune was not alone in casting doubt as to whether Dorothy Day could become a saint: They asked, “Could a bohemian journalist, who had a failed marriage and an abortion, be a candidate for Catholic canonization?”
This, it seems to me, is a bit of a strange question because in reality aren’t all saints unlikely?
I did a little research and came up with a few saints that jumped out at me as some of the most unlikely.
Moses the Black was a slave of a government official in Egypt who fired him for pure badassery. Think about that for a second. Dude was so bad he got fired from being a slave.
Wilgefortis and her Dad didn’t get along all that well. While the acrimony likely stemmed from her father actually naming her Wilgerfortis, it only got worse when her father promised the Catholic teen to a pagan king.
Longinus, was healed when some of the blood and water from Jesus fell into his eyes. It was then he exclaimed “Indeed, this was the Son of God!” He then converted, went AWOL from his gig as a centurion, took instruction from the apostles, and became a monk
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