My Badass Book of Saints: Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live

In this edgy, honest, and often audacious book of Catholic spirituality, blogger and popular podcaster Maria Morera Johnson explores the qualities of twenty-four holy women who lived lives of virtue in unpredicted and often difficult circumstances.

In ‘My Badass Book of Saints: Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live,’ Johnson shares her experience as a first-generation Cuban-American, educator of at-risk college students, and caregiver for a husband with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Through witty, empowering, and touching portraits of twenty-four spiritual mentors who inspired her, Maria Johnson shows how their valor, integrity, selflessness, perseverance, and hope helped her and can help others have courage to reach for a closer connection to God.

She presents incredible holy women and saints—including the gun-toting Servant of God Sr. Blandina Segale, who tried to turn the heart of Billy the Kid; and Nazi resister Irena Sendler, who helped smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II—in a way that brings their vivid personalities to life and assists readers to live out the opposition of their lives with virtue and conviction. This stunning book also includes a group discussion guide.