Saints’ intercession

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Often appears with: visions of christ · the problem of evil and theodicy · st. peter’s feast day · spiritual discernment · resisting temptation · reburial and translation of relics · reason and the intellect · prayer for guidance · prayer and worship · non-imaginary locutions · monastery burial practices · miraculous healing

Usually: narrative (2) · argument (1) · confronting death (1) · crisis of belief (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1) · reverence (1) · wonder (1)

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England primary

Bede, the Venerable, Saint · composed as a church history in Latin
Book I > BOOK IV (15/50)

Hildilid succeeds Ethelburg as abbess, orders translations of buried bones into the church, and recounts a miracle where a blind woman regains sight after praying in the monastery cemetery of the saints.

this was done, and a fragrancy of wonderful sweetness arose, and what other signs were revealed, whosoever reads will find in the book from which we have taken these tales.(586) But in truth, I think it by no means fit to pass over the miracle of healing, which the same book informs us was wrought in the cemetery of that community dedicated to God. There lived in that neighbourhood a certain thegn, whose wife was se…

The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel primary

Teresa of Ávila, Saint · c. 1562
Chapter XXV., § 4, St. Teresa, speaking of the difference between the Divine and the imaginary locutions, says that a person commending a matter to God with great earnestness, may think that he hears whether his prayer will be granted or not: y es muy posible, "and this is quite possible," but he who has ever heard a Divine locution will see at once that this assurance is something quite different. Mr. Lewis, following the old Spanish editions, translated "And it is most impossible," whereas both the autograph and the context demand the wording I have ventured to substitute. > Chapter XXVI. (2/3)

She resumes her life story: after two years praying for safer direction and trying to desire change, she experiences a Christ-vision on St. Peter’s feast, feels constant presence without form, and is reassured as not imaginary.

some of them I could mention. Here, then, are so many reasons for believing that they come from God, as make it impossible, I believe, for anybody to mistake them. 4. The safest course in these things is to declare, without fail, the whole state of the soul, together with the graces our Lord gives me, to a confessor who is learned, and obey him. I do so; and if I did not, I should have no peace. Nor is it right th…

Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation primary

Sir Thomas More · 1534
BOOK ONE > BOOK TWO (45/64)

It instructs on resisting temptation by reason, contempt, and invoking God’s help, recommending prayer, the Mass litany, saints’ intercession, and remembering Christ’s passion.

against it, but sometimes set it clear at right naught and cast it off when it cometh and not once regard it so much as to vouchsafe to think thereon. Some folk have been clearly rid of such pestilent fancies with very full contempt of them, making a cross upon their hearts and bidding the devil avaunt. And sometimes they laugh him to scorn too, and then turn their mind unto some other matter. And when the devil hat…