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Often appears with: theodicy · the problem of evil and theodicy · saint veneration · predestination and salvation · miracles and divine intervention · equity, mercy, and pardon · divine mercy
Usually: reflection (1) · crisis of belief (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
“... he might in his last moments have made so complete an act of contrition that perchance God had mercy on him and received him into His kingdom.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume I · insight
The narrator concludes that, though Ciappelletto lived wickedly, he may have received mercy through sincere last-moment contrition, yet the story insists it appears he should be damned to highlight God’s goodness toward believers.
they called him and still call him San Ciappelletto affirming that many miracles have been and daily are wrought by God through him for such as devoutly crave his intercession. So lived, so died Ser Cepperello da Prato, and came to be reputed a saint, as you have heard. Nor would I deny that it is possible that he is of the number of the blessed in the presence of God, seeing that, though his life was evil and depra…