Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia by Robert H. Greene

Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia

Robert H. Greene

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nonfiction history religion
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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 matte...

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