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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: to the minster, and put the idol again into his place. And then
for the love and in worship of that idol, and for the reverence of
the feast, they slay themselves, a two hundred or three hundred
persons, with sharp knives, of the which they bring the bodies
before the idol. And then they say that those be saints, because
that they slew themselves of their own good will for love of their
idol. And as men here that had an holy saint of his kin would
think that it were to them an high worship, right so then, thinketh
there. And as men here devoutly would write holy saints' lives and
their miracles, and sue for their canonizations, right so do they
there for them that slay themselves wilfully for love of their
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