Andy Warhol should be made a saint – he makes every day sacred

Andy Warhol died 30 years ago this week, and his Catholic piety, care for the poor and sheer mystical vision mean he remains a transcendent talent

Thirty years have passed since Andy Warhol’s death. Surely it is high time for him to be made a saint.

There was something prescient and slightly spooky about the way he said goodbye to life on Earth. This spring, in Milan, his final works are going on display again in an exhibition called Sixty Last Suppers. It recreates the eerie final act of his life. For Warhol painted his Last Suppers in homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper (Il Cenacolo) in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, and they were unveiled in this city with its long Christian history in January 1987. Within a month, Warhol was dead, aged 58, following a gallbladder operation.

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I was so scared today
There was blood leaking through my shirt
From those old scars from being shot
And the corset I wear to keep my insides in was hurting
And I did three sets of 15 pushups
And four sets of 10 situps
But then my insides hurt
And I saw drops of blood on my shirt and I remember
The doctors saying I was dead

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