Autobiography of catholic saints
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Biographies and Autobiographies: Lives of and by the Saints
Within the genre of biography, autobiography is a special type. We hope for accuracy, objectivity, and balance from a biographer, but unless there are diaries or other spiritual writings from the individual who is the subject of the account, it is much harder to know for sure what was taking place within the person.
The genre of autobiography allows, and in fact, encourages more self-disclosure.
Autobiography of catholic saints
To be sure, it is not that the genre is immune to deception and misrepresentation, but here the factor of real sanctity works in favor of the reader. Where the autobiography of a worldly person could well be devised in such a way as to leave a certain impression, regardless of its truth, the true saint who writes knows that the most important witness is the Lord, and has ever reason to tell the truth.
Were this a court of law, there would be reason to be suspicious.
No one thinks it wise to let the accused be the judge in his