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ALIVE SAINTS
Day to Day
- Healing recommend other methods, placebo
- Exorcism Brown's theory of aggression chasing demons away
- Day to helping pwer
- Hospitality
- Mango rightly points to Nicholas and variety of saint suggesting miracles historicity not important dubious nature.
BROWN MEDIATOR, OBJECTIVE
- Urban and rural saint plays crucial role as outside
- Patron like in village objectivity for law disputes in increasingly free state need objectivity as imperial institutions lose it
- Careful not to take role in society away from it
- Urban Daniel Stylite arbitration Emperor powerful there as well.
DEAD SAINTS
MANGO
- More important miracles lost and people ask for forgiveness, closer to God and healing irrespective of dubious past of saint
- Protector patronus and amicus friend and patron of particular person bloke in Nosa gaining prestige and geographical centre from Felix
- Community gains prestige as relics transported (no need for large pilgrimage network)- quote about perfume and uplifting of saint.
Conclusion
- Difficult evidence esp. spirituality and narrow confines clear did some good, whether deserved it or not from Holy Miracles important part to stress is perceived to have done miracles and this aided society. Brown's arguments believable evidence rather short and narrow confines reasonable
- Difficult to split Saints dead and alive not necessarily acts but reputation.
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