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Mirabilis Deus in Sanctis Suis*: Social History and Medieval Miracles

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Michael Goodich
Michael Goodich*
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Perhaps our most learned and knowledgeable informant concerning both the heretics and their persecutors is the great inquisitor, hagiographer and Dominican historian Bernard Gui (1261–1331), who has been immortalized as the personification of evil by Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose. In his manual for inquisitors, Gui issued the following caveat concerning the conduct of inquiries into heresy:

It is worthwhile noting that if too many questions and answers are raised, the truth is distorted and destroyed as a result of the diversity of persons and events. Rather, it is suitable not to write down all the questions and answers, but only those which touch directly on the substance and character of the event and which more closely appear to express the truth. If in one deposition too many questions and answers are found, another deposition will appear thereby diminished since too little is recorded. When so many questions and answers are written down in a trial, agreement can scarcely be found in the depositions of the witnesses, which should be both considered and avoided.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 41: Signs, Wonders, Miracles Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church , 2005 , pp. 135 - 156
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Ps 67,36 in the Vulgate, first used in Celestine Ill’s canonization bull (1191) for Peter of Tarantaise, PL 206, 869–71, appears frequently in many subsequent bulls of canonization. I would like to thank participants at the 2003 meeting of CIHEC for their valuable suggestions.

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11 James of Voragine, Legenda aurea, ed. Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, 2 vols (2nd edn, Florence, 1998), 2: 1175. This comes from the 1233 miracle collection in Albert Huyskens, Quellenstudien zur Geschkhte der hl. Elisabeth, Landgräfin von Thüringen (Marburg, 1908), 155–239, n. 17. On her process see Sankt Elisabeth, Fürstin, Dienerin, Heilige. Aufsätze, Documentation, Katalog (Sigmaringen, 1981), 123–36.

12 Huyskens, , Quellenstudien, 246–7 Google Scholar. On the popularity of Elizabeth’s cult, see Werner, Matthias, ‘ Mater Hassiae—Flos Ungariae—Gloria Teutoniae. Politik und Heiligenverehrung im Nachlebcn der hl. Elisabeth von Thüringen’, in Petersohn, Jürgen, ed., Politik und Heiligenverehrung im Hochmittelalter (Sigmaringen, 1994), 449–540, esp. 455–68.Google Scholar

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21 See e.g. Rosaldo, Renato, ‘From the Door of his Tent: the Fieldworker and the Inquisitor’, in Clifford, James and Marcus, George E., eds, Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley, CA, 1986), 77–97 Google Scholar. Further criticism of the willingness to read inquisitorial documents uncritically is found in Natalie Zemon Davis, ‘Les Conteurs de Montaillou (note critique)’, Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations [hereafter: Annales] 34 (1979), 61–73.

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44 The theme of ‘Elite and Popular Religion’ has been chosen as the topic for the Ecclesiastical History Society Conference, 2004, by the President, Prof. Eamon Duffy, and will be the subject of SCH 42.

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49 See the summary in see Processus supra vita et miraculis domini Philippi archiepiscopi Biturcensis, BN, MS Paris, lat. 5373A, fol. 3r.

50 Vita et miracula Cunegundis, in ActaSS, 3 March, I: 278.

51 Thomas Aquinas’s polemical battles with Jews, Averroists, William of St Amour, Siger of Brabant, the Fraticelli, Brethren of the Free Spirit and Greek schismatics are emphasized in the Vita by Willam of Tocco, in ActaSS, 7 March, I: 663–6. One of the witnesses at the canonization hearing of Thomas of Hereford said of Thomas: ‘videns quod iudei multa mala perpetrabant in regno Anglia procuravit cum rege quod praedicaretur eis et quod illi qui nollent converti exirent regnum Anglie …’ (BAV, MS Vat. lat. 4015, fol. 104r; see also fol. 88r). Richard of Chichester, Angelo of Trapani and Raymund of Penyafort also actively converted the Jews.

52 Merlo, Grado, ‘Pietro di Verona – S. Pietro martire. Difficoltà e proposte per lo studio di un inquisitore beatificato’, in Boesch-Gajano, Sofia and Sebastiani, Lucia, eds, Culto dei santi: istituzioni e classi sociali in età preindustriale (L’Aquila, 1984), 417–88, 480 Google Scholar, taken from a 1395 trial of heretics in Piedmont.

53 ActaSS, 29 April, III: 702B. For the miracle of a Cathar who drew his sword before a fresco illustrating the assassination of Peter Martyr, turned mute, and converted, see Stift Admont, Admont MS 781, fol. 90r; for the skeptic in Louis of Toulouse’s 1317 canonization, see Bullarium romanum, IV: 145–8; for Thomas, ibid., IV: 186–90.

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61 Rome, Biblioteca Angelica, MS 157 (B.6.10), fols 93V-95V for his sermons. I would like to thank both the Biblioteca Angelica and the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes for their assistance. This stress on virtues rather than miracles by preachers is clear in the over sixty sermons concerning Clare of Assisi examined in Marina Soriani Innocenti, ‘I sermoni latini in onore di Santa Chiara’, in Chiara di Assisi. Atti del XX Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 15–17 Ottobre 1992, Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani, ns 3 (Spoleto, 1993), 357–80.

62 John of Salerno, Vita Odonis, in PL 133, 49.

63 This was the occasion for the production of the Vatican ms., which is a copy of the original, including an account of its treatment by Rome.

64 See n. 11 for the list of questions in Elizabeth’s case. For Philip’s questions, see BAV, MS Vat. lat. 4019, fol. 9r-v: Testos legitimos quos super vita conversationem et miraculis recolende memorie Philippi bituricensis archiepiscopi recipere prius ab eis prestito iuramento diligenter examinare curetis et de omnibus que dixerint interrogetis eosdem quomodo sciunt quo tempore quo mense quo die quibus presentibus quo loco ad cuius invocationem et quibus verbis interpositis et [de] nominibus illorum circa quos miracula facta dicuntur et si ante cognoscebant et quot diebus ante viderunt eos infirmos et quanto tempore fuerunt infirmi et quanto tempore visi sunt sani et de quo loco sint oriundi et interrogetis de omnibus circumstanciis et circa singula capitula …’. The questions posed by Innocent V in the 1276 case of Margaret of Hungary are identical. See Inquisitio, ed. Fraknoì, 1: 161–2.

65 Christian Krotzl, ‘Miracles au tombeau – miracles à distance: approches typologiques’, in Aigle, ed., Miracle et Karama, 557–76, notes the greater frequency of miracles far from the shrine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This parallels the substantial rise of miracles which occur in the presence of movable altarpieces, particularly in Italy.

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