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Hardcover Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia Book

ISBN: 0875804098

ISBN13: 9780875804095

Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia

(Part of the NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies Series)

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While Russian Orthodox theologians celebrated saints as paragons of virtue and piety whose lives were to be emulated in the search for salvation, ordinary believers routinely sought the assistance of the holy dead for commonplace and earthly matters. The Orthodox faithful were more likely to pray to the saints for help in the everyday concerns of health and home than for salvation. Evidence from miracle stories, devotional literature, parish records,...

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