The Historical Consciousness of the Saints

The two concerns I have with documenting the saints lives in a way that did not actually happen. That's one thing if you're going to talk about shoes, it's another thing if you say she was then buried by a lion or something even more seemingly incredible. The reception of the St. Patrick legends right now amongst people who are coming back to Christianity is not one of skepticism. It's one of great joy. People love to read stories that involve weird manifestations of animal activity that involve kind of bizarre, a historical,. they love that stuff because to them it speaks of a reality of God inhabiting this earth.