_Soldiers of Christ_ by Thomas F.X. Noble and Thomas Head is a good source
to read about popular sainthood. I'm sure someone has already mentioned
Peter Brown's _The Cult of the Saints_.
Arlene
Arlene Hilfer
Department of English
Kent State University
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I profess, and to my last breath I shall profess it, that both in body and
soul, in everything, whether in prosperity or adversity, you provide for
me in the way that is most suitable. . . with the one and uncreated
wisdom, my sweetest God, reaching from end to end mightily and ordering
all things sweetly.
---Gertrude of Helfta
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