Holy comic books!
Saints are the latest superheroes
By Elizabeth Day
(Filed: 26/03/2006)

A chisel-jawed man with flowing chestnut-brown locks, rippling muscles and a penchant for "endless parties" stares from the cover of the latest comic book. This is not Superman or one of the traditional superheroes, but St Francis of Assisi, the pious 13th century monk who became the Roman Catholic patron saint of animals and the environment. This is sainthood: comic book style.

The lives of the saints have been turned into comic books by a publishing company hoping to attract young people to the Catholic Church.

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