Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation Quotes

“Bending an object in order to make it useless for its normal purpose and to show that it was votive was an ancient tradition—”
― Robert C. Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

“bread were being baked, or gold or silver purified in a furnace.” Afterwards the Christians of Smyrna wish to collect his remains, desiring “to have a share in his holy flesh.” Before they are allowed to do so, they have to overcome the objections of pagans and”
― Robert C. Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation