medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The Miracles of Thomas Becket have at least two interesting accounts of revivals from the dead preceded by conditions that sound like coma (Book IV, chaps. 65 and 66). In one, a 15-year-old girl appears to die of cancer after falling into a coma-like state but then revives. In the other, an 8-year-old boy who drowns is pronounced dead and then revived (which is reminiscent of modern stories of children resuscitated after being recovered many minutes after falling under freezing water).
I can send you the stories if you like or they are available in James C. Robertson, Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Rolls Series no. 67 (London: Longman & Co., 1876) v. II or translated in Edwin A. Abbott, St. Thomas of Canterbury, His Life and Miracles (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1898) v. II.
John
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