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The miracle stories surrounding Sainte Foy form one of the most complete sets of material relating to a medieval saint's cult and its practices. Pamela Sheingorn's superb translation from the Medieval Latin texts now makes this literature available in English. __The Book of Sainte Foy__ recounts the virgin saint's martyrdom in the third century (__Passio__), the theft of her relics in the late ninth century by the monks of the monastery at Conques (__Translatio__), and her diverse miracles (__Liber miraculorum__); also included is a rendering of the Provençal Chanson de Sainte Foy, translated by Robert L. A. Clark. The miracles distinguish Sainte Foy as an unusual and highly individualistic child saint displaying a fondness for gold and pretty things, as well as a penchant for playing practical jokes on her worshippers. In his record of Sainte Foy, Bernard of Angers, the eleventh-century author of the first parts of the __Liber miraculorum__, emphasized the saint's "unheard of" miracles, such as replacing missing body parts and bringing dead animals back to life. The introduction to the volume situates Sainte Foy in the history in the history of hagiography and places the saint and

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Author
Sheingorn, Pamela (editor);Sheingorn, Pamela (editor)
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780812215120
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Biography, Memoir
Updated
2026-03-24

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