“I tell you the truth,” says Jesus to the disciples in John, in the chapter just prior to his famous “High Priestly prayer”: “it is good for you that I should go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you” (Jn 16:7). The efficacy of the martyrs after their deaths was a commonplace in some strea…
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