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This study is an investigation of the rite of the Holy Fire, a ceremony celebrated yearly on Great and Holy Saturday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, in which, according to popular belief, a miraculous light descends from Heaven a…

This dissertation identifies five tropes, or narratological motifs, in the hagiographic literature from Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England, and Francia from the early-medieval period that treat of saints, their bodies, and their embodied miracles. These tropes include the motif of hol…