Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be doubted. For if at God's word water gushed from hard rock in the wilderness-yes, and from an ass's jawbone when Samson was thirsty -why should it seem incredible that healing medicine should distill from the relics of saints


In Relics: The Shroud of Turin, the True Cross, the Blood of Januarius...History, Mysticism, and the Catholic Church, Joan Carroll Cruz, 1984, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Indiana, ISBN 0879737018 ISBN 9780879737016 p. 206.

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John of Damascus Quotes

Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be...

Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be...

Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be...

Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be...