Table of contents : Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. “From South Chicago to Heaven”: The Making of the National Shrine of St. Jude 2. Hopeless Causes and Things Despaired Of 3. Imagining Women 4. “I Recognize Him When He Turns Women Imagining Jude 5. “ She Would Tell Me Her Troubles and I mine”: Hagiography as Stories in Two Voices 6. Healings 7. “There’s Miracles, and Miracles, and Miracles”: The Cult of Hopeless Causes Notes Bibliography Index