medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Chris wrote:
levitations, stigmata, weeping tears of blood, and reports of heavenly
visions
... actually carry little if any weight in the official saint-making
process as
it now stands.
Times are hard. What does a chap have to do nowadays to make it as a
saint? It was easier in the old days. Saint William of York got sainted
when the Ouse Bridge at York collapsed under him. Some of those who
fell in were saved from drowning, no doubt through the intercession of
the saint. Nobody seems to have enquired:
1. How deep the water was.
2. Whether they could swim.
3. How come, if William was so saintly, the bridge collapsed under him
in the first place. I have travelled over that bridge (or its modern
replacement) hundreds of times, without it collapsing at all. Nobody
has ever put me forward for canonisation.
Bill.
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