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Saints

Catalogue of Saints

An important aspect of bobism is the celebration of saints. It is not believed that this will lead to salvation, but it may enrich one's life, which is in accordance with Bobology. The saints are too numerous to list comprehensively here, but the most important are:
 

• Jerry Garcia - the holy ghost (according to the trinity The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost: Bob, Jakob and Jerry Garcia. The somewhat contradictory assignation of both Bob and Jakob as the Son, must be explained as a religious mystery, which is what makes this a religious cult anyway, and not just a list of biographical data.)
• Clinton Heylin - St Luke (comprehensive, has also written about the Acts, day to day, and in studio)
• Paul Williams  - St Paul (the true founder of Bobism. Williams is not either an ordinary evangelist, but rather an epistle-apostle, with his important epistles Performing Artist, Watching the River Flow, What Happened? etc.)
• Anthony Scaduto - St Matthew (relies heavily on scriptures, interviews etc.)
• Robert Shelton  - St John the Evangelist (the disciple with the most personal relation with Him)
• Bob Spitz - St Mark (action)
• The Prophets are collectively represented by the old Delta Blues singers
• Woody Guthrie - St John the Baptist (The voice in the wilderness (i.e. the Dust Bowl) preparing the way for the Master).
• Joan Baez - Mary the Magdalene
• Sara - St Mary (another mystery: she was neither His mother nor a Virgin (i assume, since she already had a child), but her role as the most important female saint is undisputed).
• Jakob Dylan - The Son
• John Lennon - St John (some may argue that St John is already represented by Robert Shelton. That's however another example of the misunderstanding of the previous cult - St John the Evangelist can impossibly be the same person as the St John the Apostle: consider the confusion that would have arisen if John had been called, e.g., George instead. Interestingly enough (but hardly surprising) Dylan is aware of this, since he refers specifically to "St John the Evangelist" and not just "St John" in Abandoned Love (the heretical view that this should have been dictated by the rhyme, is of course complete nonsense - it is hardly more difficult to rhyme with "John" ("moving on", "subtraction", "pantechnicon", "veneer", just to mention a few) than with "Evangelist").