Shrines began at the sites of Christian martyrs’ burial. Subsequently those bodies were brought into the churches, but shrines have often derived their power from the fact that a sacred intervention occurred in a specific place, or the remains of a sacred person inhabited a place. The most powerful shrines are always places where a saint lived, died or was buried; where his or her presence is somehow specially felt; or where a supernatural visitation took place.
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