The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics

ISBN: 9780199675562 出版年：2019 页码：264 Wisniewski, Robert Oxford University Press

This innovative study shows how Christian attitudes to martyrs swiftly and dramatically changed in the mid-fourth century. It examines when and why Christians began to believe in the healing, protective, and divinatory power of the bones of the martyrs, and to look for physical contact with them.