Sortes Sanctorum: Sacred Lots, Christian Divination, and the Search for God's Answer

A forbidden tradition survived inside the Church.

Sortes Sanctorum reveals the hidden world of sacred lots, a method of Christian divination practiced in late antiquity and the medieval world, where believers sought answers not through prophecy, but through chance guided by God.

This book uncovers the true history of the Lots of the Saints, a system condemned by councils yet preserved in manuscripts, whispered through shrines, and used by those who stood in moments of fear, illness, and uncer...