“…But even as early as the late 1950s, the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana [Christian family], sold in the churches’ foyers, began the publication of the lives of the saints as fotoromanzi (Ferrari, 1998), a very popular postwar genre, which combined comic strips and photographs to tell (usually love) stories. Stories of saints and martyrs, in fact, contain most of the characteristics of contemporary popular culture: “strong narratives, heroes and villains, human interest, extreme violence, fantastic happenings, exotic locations and so on” (Bennett, 2011, p. 439). But their main purpose, beyond the entertainment, is that of providing a suitable role model for their readers, spectators, or users in general.…”