Auxílio e Prote o Divina na Vita Sancti Aemiliani de Bráulio de Sarago a

In the seventh century, the recognition of sanctity was given by the existence of miracles attributed to men or women that were believed to be holy. Such amazing events were the certification that such person had been chosen by God to be His agent on the earthly plane and therefore to perform His work amongst Christians. Amidst three types of miracles, that is, those of direct intervention, the aid, and the protection given buy God, I study the presentation of the last ones in the Vita Sancti Aemiliani, an hagiography written in the Iberian Peninsula in the seventh century by the bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, in order to understand how those cases were put forward by the hagiographers to ratify the sanctity of the figures on which they wrote about. Therefore they sought, in my opinion, to reaffirm the fame and reputation of those personae and to turn them into true heroes of the Christian faith, so that they could act as examples for both converts and those who were still sought to be converted.