I just came across a thought-provoking post by Karen Marie at From the Anchor Hold on Genesius. Her post describes how Genesius set out to create a play mocking Christians as an entertainment for Emperor Diocletian. I won’t spoil the ending by telling you what happens but it did get me thinking about the possibility of a saint dying a mocker. I remember reading a book on how to write novels (yes, I used to have aspirations!) and one of the subjects was character development. It’s high drama for a sinner to become a saint (Read St. Augustine’s Confessions) but higher still is the tale of a saint who becomes a sinner. A fictional example from Spanish literature is San Manuel Bueno Martir by Miguel de Unamuno. I read that story in a Spanish Lit class in college and it has haunted me ever since.