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This volume examines the Spanish Inquisition's response to a host of self-proclaimed holy persons and miracle-working visionaries whose spiritual exploits garnered popular acclaim in seventeenth-century Spain. In an effort to control this groundswell of religious enthusiasm, the Spanish Inquisition began prosecuting the crime of feigned sanctity, attempting to distinguish "false saints" from their officially approved counterparts. Drawing on Inquisition trial records, confessors' manuals, treatises on the discernment of spirits, and spiritual autobiographies, the book situates the problem of...

EVERYONE is capable of raising successful children if "parenting" begins before the child is conceived. Parenting is a very serious endeavor and should be entered into with more planning and care than purchasing a property, opening a business, or embarking upon any venture that has longevity. Well behaved, happy, and well-mannered children do not result from genetic attributes.