In the book, Making Sense of Saints: Fascinating Facts About Relics, Patrons, Canonisation and More, authour Patricia Ann Kasten writes that the first churches erected after the early Christian house churches were built near or directly over the graves of martyrs.
Over the years there has been a close relationship between remains of saints and martyrs with the physical cathedral structure.
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