Calvin rejected the cult of the saints,[118] yet it is said that he “believed that prayers to St. Genevieve had saved his life when he was stricken with fever.”[119] Believing that apostolic miracles had ceased did not make him doubt that God could still answer prayer for healing.[120] Before the influence of the radical Enlightenment, many Protestants did continue to affirm and experience miraculous healings (e.g., in the first generation of Scots Reformers;[121] note also Friends and early Baptists).[122] Some have also cited healing claims for reforming groups before Luther, such as the
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