The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity

@article{Scholz1981TheCO,
  title={The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity},
  author={Bernhard Walter Scholz and Peter Robert Lamont Brown},
  journal={The American Historical Review},
  year={1981},
  volume={86},
  pages={1080}
}
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