medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I'm sure I should know this, but I'd really like a reference and/or
summary of the "seven criteria of empirical scientific evidence" for
miracles.
Dale Hample
Dennis Martin wrote:
When Urban VIII forbade in the 1640s public liturgical veneration for
anyone whose case had not been investigated via the Congregation of the
Rites (finally making stick what popes since Alexander III had attempted
to make standard, namely, a uniform Roman investigation before elevation
to liturgical veneration) and when Benedict XIV worked out in detail the
procedures to be followed in such investigations, they exempted from the
historical, canonical investigation process (interviewing witnesses etc.
regarding a life of heroic virtue, examining alleged miracles based on
seven criteria of empirical scientific evidence) saints who
were already long dead in 1640 and for whom one could demonstrate (again
by historical investigation) a long-standing cultus prior to the 1640s
cutoff point but who had not at that point yet been accorded universal
liturgical veneration.
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