The Story Of Frigeia

From the village of Frigeia, there was a woman that lacked faith and had a baby that was stillborn. With constant reminders of the contractions in her stomach, she was worried that her future was unknown. Through a lot of pain and agony the woman could not help but think that her life was in jeopardy. Going through distractions and torment she began to realize that her only help would be God’s clemency. Realizing this, she prayed as much as she could to get the lord's attention to bring good health upon her. She doubted and even almost gave up, but there was one thing she was forgetting. It was the miraculous power of God, and knowing that he is always present in times of struggle. With the help from God, came the healing of her stomach and
There were people that believed all different kinds of beliefs and tried to get people on their side. This is when we find the narrator of the story tell the beliefs and give a real life situation that happened to back his belief up. The monk that wrote this intended the audience to be the people that wanted to strengthen their faith in Christ. We see in the story that the woman had to “appeal to the mercy of the Lord and his mother to see if they felt her worthy of their compassion”(3). This shows that the woman didn’t have faith in the Lord before she was in pain. She quickly found out that the Lord did what she asked and healed her. The woman was a perfect example for the monk to show to his audience/non-believers. His main purpose in this story, and in real life, was to show the doubters the power and effect God can have on a person’s life. Through detailed accounts we can see the affect the woman had after she was healed. “She returned to to Saint-Wandrelle, where she told the events”(4), and “Thereafter happy and filled with praise she returned
Most people relied on people traveling from city to city to relay messages to one another. So in this source we learn that in their society that messages took a long time to travel from one source to another. We also see that with the technology now that the woman wouldn’t be in that much of pain then back in the eleventh century. God can be seen as helpful, or to some people as non-existent. There are so many examples of historical accounts of people believing in the Lord. With those beliefs came good things happening to them. The society and people around the women were almost absent when she was in pain. We see no evidence of the woman getting help from her friends or even parents.This showed that people back then relied more on the doings of God then other