The claims made about Chiara's body suggest that mutilation and resurrection were evidence of "the association of dismemberment and sanctity [that] continued to permeate popular attitudes into the sixteenth century." Stories of mutilation and death at the hands of a religious enemy allowed the Church to suggest that the existence of miracles was inherent in the only true religion.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 260