Dr Simon Yarrow
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And this is one of the earliest mentions of the collection of bones and ashes by a community after the death of a persecuted Christian.
And they're venerated and there's a celebration, what's called a feast day or the birthday, which is i.e.
the death day, the martyr day of the saints.
And these lay down the kind of foundations of what's to come.
And it really takes off in the fourth century and the fifth century.
Yeah, there's a real interest in martyrdom in the fourth century that's part of the cult of Constantine and the church triumphant, as it's called.
I would start a bit earlier and I would say, you know, to begin with, if we think of St.
Paul, St.
Paul's epistles, his letters to different Christian communities, he always addresses them as holy, as saints.
So to Paul, anyone who's baptized in the Christian faith is a saint, is a holy person.
So it's fairly, you know, sociologically that's quite interesting because it means, you know, it's highly participatory and it's very kind of egalitarian.
And of course, you don't get to choose whether you're a victim of persecution.
So lots of people from varied backgrounds can end up being martyrs during the phases of persecution under the Roman Empire.
But then from the 5th and 6th centuries onwards, we tend to get very much elite figures who are in the role of bishops.
They're often called confessors.
And figures of high status.
There are even cults of kind of royal dynasties where holy blood runs through royal blood as well in descent lines.
St.
Louis in France.
Yeah.
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