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       Miraculous Healing
       By: AGelbert Date: September 19, 2016, 12:34 pm
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       Partial Cures in Later Medieval Canonization Processes
       September 13, 2016 By Medievalists.net
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       Heavenly Healing or Failure of Faith?
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       Partial Cures in Later Medieval Canonization Processes[/center]
       By Jenni Kuuliala
       Introduction: For the past decades, canonization processes and
       miracle collections have provided a treasure trove for the
       historians of everyday life. Using them as source material,
       topics such as family life, childhood, and gender roles have
       been covered by many scholars, in addition to the study of the
       veneration of saints and the canonization process itself.
       Healing miracles, with their basis in the Bible, were the
       fundamental type of miracle performed by saints.
       For medieval people, the miracles performed by Christ provided
       the models for subsequent miracles, which continued to be
       conducted after his life on earth. A high proportion of recorded
       miracles cured blindness, deafness, speech disorders, and
       various conditions impairing a person’s mobility. Therefore,
       they also provide a very unique source type for the study of
       medieval illness and health, as well as dis/ability.
       Although many of the healing miracles included in later medieval
       canonization records, as well as in other types of miracle
       collections, are sudden, often even showy cures, a large
       proportion of the recoveries of particularly physical
       impairments and long-term illnesses were gradual.
       Additionally, hagiographic sources include a group of miracles
       that were somehow partial. By ‘partial cure’, I mean healing
       miracles, after which some milder symptoms of the previous
       illness or impairment remained. The term is a modern one;
       although the sources record the possible ‘incompleteness’ of the
       cure, there is variation in the labelling and phrasing of them.
       Cures that can be defined as partial were, in any case,
       scrutinized relatively rarely in the canonization hearings.
       Those scholars who have paid attention to their existence have
       explained this lack of coverage by interpreting them as failed
       miracles, or uninteresting to the commissioners. For example,
       Maria Wittmer-Butsch and Constanze Rendtel write that partial
       cures were most often rejected because they were considered
       rather as healings, not miracles, and thus no longer interesting
       for the process, and Stanko Andrić places partial cures in
       the category of failed, or ‘not-quite-successful’ miracles.
       Click here to read this article from Academia.edu
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