Medieval Saints Spain Brought to the Philippines
The Martyrdom Of Saint Sebastian. ca 1472. Staatliche Sammlung. Munich It took a millennia before much of Western Europe would claim that the polytheist Graeco-Roman religion was finally supplanted in the big part of the region by a different kind of religiosity. One that put man at the center of the cosmos with a one God in communion with the wretchedness of man, a divinity that suffered from humanity -- Jesus Christ as the incarnated son of God, as a branch of the new faith claimed. Yet the new faith could not get rid of itself with a semi cult belief in what many claims as heroes of the church -- Individuals labeled now as saints, said to have possessed divine powers, putting humans in action, to heal, and to convert in the name of the Christ. Most were the early martyrs and movers of the church yet others claim they were the equivalent demigods seen in the Graeco-Roman religion. Like the old city-state of Hellas (Greece), these saints were venerated by communities and cities call