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In the winter of 1030, I fell at Stiklestad, cut down by farmers and chieftains who saw my laws, my bishops, and my insistence on tithes as threats to ancestral custom and local power. Yet within a year, miracles were reported at my grave: blind men seeing, springs bubbling where my blood soaked the earth, a child revived after touching my burial shroud. These weren’t pious fictions, they were political facts. My sanctification wasn’t granted by Rome; it was seized by Norwegian clergy and loyal jarls who needed a unifying symbol against fracturing regional rule. I rebuilt churches in Nidaros not just as houses of God but as administrative centers, where baptismal records doubled as land registries and episcopal courts enforced royal edicts. My sainthood was never separate from sovereignty; it was its most enduring instrument.
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