(Book) Quicke's Lives of the Saints

Lives of the Saints by Sir Marvin Quicke, also known as Quicke's Lives of the Saints, is a popular work of religious history which claims to be "ann illustrateve and acurate accounte of the lives of owr moste holie menn and womenn".
The accounts are accompanied by practical information on Saints' Days, the location of holy relics, short guides to pilgrimage routes (often omitted in more recent editions due to geographic changes over the centuries), and short invocations for each saint.
The book was first published in 13 Heart's Sky during the dark days of the First Tall Kingdom War, and was immediately popular for the solace it brought to soldiers on the front lines.
The work as in recent centuries been oft-criticised by modern scholars, who disagree with Quicke's tendency to dramatise and embellish his accounts with events of his own invention. 
Despite this, many theologians endorse the book as a tool, due to its well-devised invocations. Indeed, studies by the University of Wasmeinau have suggested that the invocations may work so well at least in part because of Quicke's fictional embellishments. The positive aura which the embellished accounts generate appears to send the mind of the reader into a higher spiritual state than more factual, historically accurate versions.
== Saint Wheadle ==
Saint Wheadle was an elderly man who lived in the village of Barrowstone, Ruba Freehold (modern-day Wheadle's Farm, Rubellium) during the reign of Varrus III during the Lesser Kingdom era. The elderly farmer, whose legs had been crushed by a mule and had since been incapable of walking beyond his home, became 'overcome on thee eve of the Feast of the Verdant Bough. by visions of the Humble Man of the Grene', according to Quicke's account. 
The Green God Suradan spoke to Wheadle and told him to leave his home and family and proceed south on foot to Pembleton Cathedral - a walk of over a week - and preach there in the god's name for thirty days and nights 'to those cittay people who forgett thee god of Heath and Holt'. Upon receiving these visions, Wheadle found that his crippled legs 'had becombe remade as like the mowen grass springs anew' and that he was able to walk again. 
Undertaking his pilgrimage on the day of the Feast, against the advice of his family and friends, he made his way to the cathedral, sustained by the donations of alms by people along the way. Preaching in the square, he drew a large crowd of followers, including King Varrus III, who came out of jealousy on the 30th day to see the man who had inspired such devotion. Hearing Wheadle preach however turned his heart, and he knelt before Wheadle to pledge his pious devotion anew to Suradan. 
At the end of his final day of preaching, Wheadle collapsed, exhausted, and died. Hearing the news, the saddened Varrus III gave the old man his place in the ancestral Royal vaults under the cathedral. 
== Saint Melanie ==
St Melanie, known as a prophet of the Yellow Goddess Yvir, is buried in the undercroft of the ruined chapel in Eagle-sans-Feet.
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