medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Pilgrim churches must have had some sort of open door policy since so many accounts of miracles at saints' shrines report that petitioners slept overnight near or even on the shrine inside the church.
not only miracles seem to have happened there. A decretal (X 3. 40. 4)
mentions quarrels and fights, leading to wounds and homicide, between
pilgrims contending to be close to the altar of Santiago de Compostela
during night.
best, h.w.
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