When you buy this book you will have a very unusual one in your hands: it confronts religio-theatrical themes which have never been dealt with in Malta before. This book has been researched in detail but still maintains the dynamism with which readers have come to associate   MARIO AZZOPARDI. This time Azzopardi is using his theatrical experience to entwine it in the mystic episodes, through their extraordinary behaviour. Some people believe that this was (or is) a pathological, obsessive and crazy behaviour. Whatever it is, there is no doubt about the eccentricity of various saints, just as there is no doubt about the demonic hallucinations that persecuted them. Everything is described so graphically that the book might even confuse some people and “scandalise”  others. 

I am sure that after you read this book, you will change your perspective about what is saintly and what is demonic. For the first time in Malta, the book delves into the fenomenon of the mysterious flowing of blood which is alleged to have come from the wound of the novice Jesuit, the handkerchiefs of whom are kept in the Jesuit archives in Naxxar. 

In the original appendix, Azzopardi created a dramatic draft based on the notorious case of Marie-Catherine Cadière against her confessor, the Jesuit Jean-Baptiste Girard, who was accused of seducing her in 1731.