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St Gregory the Dialogist, tr. P. W., 1608

Book 4, How Sometime the Merit of the Soul is Not So Truly Declared at the Time of the…

But here we have to understand, that sometime the merit of the soul is not so truly known at the time of the departure, as it is afterward: and therefore divers holy martyrs have suffered many great torments at the hands of infidels: who afterwards, at their dead bones, were famous for signs and miracles, as before hath been noted.