True Christian Religion (Chadwick) n. 823

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823. Since everyone has such a heredity, all who have been canonised by papal bulls are in the spiritual world removed from the sight of others and hidden, so as to deprive them of all contact with their worshippers. This is to prevent that worst of all roots of evils being aroused in them, so that they fall into the kind of delusions of the imagination that demons suffer from. Such delusion attacks those who, while they are living in the world, have the ambition of being invoked as saints after death.


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