Saints were also often essentially an analog to modern superheroes. They didn't need to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom. They didn't need to bathe yet always s

Saints were also often essentially an analog to modern superheroes. They didn't need to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom. They didn't need to bathe yet always smelled like roses. They performed miracles and other superhuman feats. They were also abstinent, which is something people at the time viewed as no more possible for a normal person than going without food and water entirely was. And, of course, they were much closer to actually being people than abstract concepts like the Vices and Virtues, which I think puts them a bit closer to 'superhero' than the characters in this medieval comic book. Still, a very neat historic work!