Rudolph M Bell and Cristina Mazzoni...

Rudolph M Bell and Cristina Mazzoni. The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a novel Saint. Chicago: U of Chicago P 2003 xvi, 320 pp ISBN 0-226-04196-4 $3000

Writing the life of a recent saint, especially one who appears peevish and demanding, put outs exceptional challenges for the biographer. Rudolph Bell and Cristina Mazzoni face these challenges head-on in telling the life story of the young Italian girl Gemma Galgani, the first someone who lived in the twentieth hundred to be made a saint. The authors skillfully navigate the boundaries distinguishing