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Clip taken from "Met. Jonah Paffhausen: Modernism Cloaked as Traditional - All You Need to Know".
We hear in this clip that "you can't take the lives of Saints at face value". He clearly says that some things described in the lives of Saints such as the extreme tortures of the martyrs or a Saint not taking milk from their mother's breast as an infant, are exaggerations and didn't actually happen as described. What is the criteria for deciding what did and did not actually happen in the Lives of Saints? What are the implications of doubting events in the Lives of Saints? What Saint tells us to take this view? If it's all open to doubt, open to being symbolic and formulaic, then one wonders, are the events in the life of Christ also open to such doubt? Since the Lives of Saints are nothing other than the Incarnation carried out into the ages.