In the atmosphere of Russian devotion myths and legends grow luxuriantly about him, nor is belief in him confined to the peasant class.

In the autumn of 1894 he was summoned to the bedside of the Emperor Alexander III.

Unfortunately for the peace of Europe, his intercession at that time proved unavailing.
These examples will serve to illustrate the process which in thousands of cases has gone on from the earliest days of the Church until a very recent period.

Everywhere miraculous cures became the rule rather than the exception throughout Christendom.
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THE MEDIAEVAL MIRACLES OF HEALING CHECK MEDICAL SCIENCE.
So it was that, throughout antiquity, during the early history of the Church, throughout the Middle Ages, and indeed down to a comparatively recent period, testimony to miraculous interpositions which would now be laughed at by a schoolboy was accepted by the leaders of thought.