Relics
The veneration of the bodily remains of saints and their use in supplication for divine aid against afflictions such as plague. Van der Burch sent the relics of St. Macarius to Mons during plague; as soon as the body arrived, the pestilence began to recede. Authbert of Cambrai "adorned the relics of the saints with the greatest seemliness."
Preliminaries
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Van der Burch sent the relics of St. Macarius to Mons during a plague; the pestilence receded upon the body's arrival.
"you sent to them the relics — the body of Saint Macarius, once Archbishop of Antioch in Armenia — and as soon as it was brought into the city, the pestilence, as if struck back from heaven, began to recede and diminish"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— St. Authbert of Cambrai "adorned the relics of the saints with the greatest seemliness."
"He also adorned the relics of the saints with the greatest seemliness."