The Story of the Saints

The way Christ came into earth mimics the heroic pattern of certain kinds of mythological, in fact, all basically mythological structures. So then what happened was that the saints ended up doing a similar thing, embodying the tropes and the patterns of storytelling in actual historical fact. And if you're looking at an authentic reception of these lives, you have to just be honest about the fact that there has never been a shift really,. not officially in the way that we look at these certainly were no official proclamation on from either pope or anybody to make these things invalid.