What did the saints eat/drink?

Answer 1

I dont think you read my complete answer to the same question you'd asked earlier. Anyway this is the little that I found on Blessed Anna Maria Taigi.

Book title: Wife, mother and Mystic By Rev.Albert Bessieres

Her fasts were perpetual. "She ate like a sparrow," complained Domenico, her husband. In the morning, on returning from Mass, she had a little cup of coffee; at midday a few drops of soup and a morsel of meat. She did not sit down, but waited at table on the others including the servants.
Domenico was not entirely unobservant. "My wife was very self-denying, especially on Fridays." We may add that she fasted specially also on Saturdays, when she was content with morning coffee and midday soup. On Wednesday, in honour of St.Joseph, it was the same. The Lenten forty days was not enough for her; she added other periods of forty days whenever there was some spectre of public misfortune to lay, or some soul to save; and, even what she ate she contrived to make a little penitential.

````````````````` I'll try to find more about other saints' diets in books and add it in here later. Look for added details later. Why are you interested ? Just curious or are you researching that topic?---------------

Title of book: St. John Bosco By Anderson (Bombay Salesian Society)
And to the very end, Don Bosco continued to take only the very coarsest food. Beans and soup formed his usual meal and only on very rare occasions did he eat meat: usually excusing himself on the ground that his teeth were bad and so he could not masticate well. In drink also he was the model of temperance and though an excellent wine was made in his neighborhood, he drank very little of it and that only at meal times. Even then he added water to it......

From the Autobiography of St Anthony Mary Claret:

Whenever I did eat, I took what was given of me, always, however, in small quantities, and food of inferior quality. If I happened to reach the rectory of the parish at an unseasonable hour, I would tell the cook to prepare only a little soup and an egg.--nothing more. I never took meat; not even now do I eat it, not because I dont like it, for I do, but because I know that not taking it is most edifying. Neither did I take wine; although I like it, it has been years since I tasted it, excluding, of course, the ablutions at Mass............
In the palace here at Madrid, banquets are held frequently......If I cannot possibly excuse myself from attending, I go to them, but always eat less than ususal on those festive occasions. It is my custom then to take only a little soup and a small piece of fruit; nothing else--no wine, only water..............

Answer 2

Many early Christian saints ate and drank as little as possible so that they could deliberately induce hallucinogenic visions which they imagined were authentic religious experiences. Many saints also engaged in self-flagellation and other forms of self-mutilation to enhance their religious experiences. Saint Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582) is one notable example. Check-out "asceticism" and "flagellation" for further information.

As a full-fledged Hippie, during San Francisco's 1969 summer of love, I engaged in a three-and-a-half day total fast. This meant no food and especially no water. I had a religious experience, experienced the "white light" and I personally visited and spoke with God in Heaven. The experience seemed more real and authentic than similar hallucinations induced by the psychedelic chemistry common in those days. After recovering my senses, I was told by my roommates that I had become hysterical and had been rolling on the floor while speaking in tongues (glossolalia). I now know that extreme dehydration can induce an acute physiological shock reaction that can suddenly and quickly kill a person. I do not recommend water-fasts because they are simply too dangerous.

Answer 3

By most definitions, a saint is just someone who has gone to Heaven. Since there are a number of people who end up in Heaven from different places and times, I'm sure the diets are varied.

Answer 4

pal, enable us to no longer carry any religious sentiments into this, enable us to maintain away the non existent third eye and all that. If it became into accessible via the prepare of Yoga to stay a life-time without nutrition, it would have been accepted to the great Yoga government, and a superb type of might have discovered the technique and popularized it! there is no longer something esoteric approximately it. you're an knowledgeable guy, with an purpose strategies think of in spite of if it incredibly is basically accessible! our bodies want nutrition, ingesting, urinating, sweating and defecating all are necessary for it to exist. Regards, TaZ

Answer 5

Which of group of saints and when?

Answer 6

If you mean the question literally, foods typical to their time. People have been awarded sainthood right up to the modern day. There is no specific diet that you can apply to all of them.

Answer 7

Only the normal diet of fruits , pudding , curd etc. No animal food.

Answer 8

They eat a lot of vegetable-based foods, and that include a hell lot of alchohol. Burppp!

Answer 9

Well....saints are believers in Christ so....

Regular food

Alot of bread products........wheat....... things like that. Don't forget lamb.

Answer 10

they drank nothing but alchohol and today's version of Mcdonalds,but i you want the "truth", they drank water and ate only the purest of foods that the angels gave them daily