{
  "country_code": "SM",
  "id": "san-marino-stone-bed",
  "title": "Saint Marinus’ stone bed: tracing a healing tradition",
  "category": "psychique",
  "date": "2026-09-30",
  "date_label": "Editorial review anchor; the stone-bed tradition has no established event date",
  "location": "Church of Saint Peter, San Marino City",
  "lat": 43.937,
  "lng": 12.447,
  "summary": "A rock-cut bed attributed to Saint Marinus is also credited with healing powers. The site offers a bounded investigation into attribution, devotion and reported effects.",
  "documented_claim": "The official monument page attributes healing powers to a stone bed associated with Saint Marinus.",
  "unproven_claim": "Contact with the bed has a demonstrated supernatural healing effect.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Visit San Marino — Small Church of Saint Peter",
      "url": "https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub2/VisitSM/en/luogo/Arte-e-cultura/Chiesetta-di-San-Pietro.html",
      "language": "en",
      "kind": "Official monument and tradition account",
      "note": "Bed, healing attribution and named relief; no clinical evidence.",
      "id": "S1",
      "accessed_on": "2026-09-30"
    },
    {
      "title": "Visit San Marino — Religious route, second stage",
      "url": "https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub2/VisitSM/en/luogo/TURISMO-RELIGIOSO/2%C2%B0-Tappa--Santo-Marino_San-Marino-Citt%C3%A0-%28RSM%29.html",
      "language": "en",
      "kind": "Official devotional landscape account",
      "note": "Spring tradition at Acquaviva; supports cultural context only.",
      "id": "S2",
      "accessed_on": "2026-09-30"
    }
  ],
  "country": "San Marino",
  "author": "Eklipsis",
  "content_languages": [
    "en"
  ],
  "path": "/investigations/san-marino-stone-bed",
  "source_url": "https://www.visitsanmarino.com/pub2/VisitSM/en/luogo/Arte-e-cultura/Chiesetta-di-San-Pietro.html",
  "location_precision": "region",
  "location_note": "Approximate orientation marker for the named locality, not an exact encounter, burial, ritual or excavation position.",
  "location_source_url": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.937&mlon=12.447#map=8/43.937/12.447",
  "reviewed_on": "2026-09-30",
  "edition": 1,
  "truth_type": "unknown",
  "verdict": "The rock-cut feature and its attributed healing tradition are documented. The bed’s historical use by the named saint and a supernatural therapeutic effect remain unestablished in the selected evidence.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "title": "The mystery and the documented account",
      "text": "San Marino’s official visitor account identifies two stone beds in the rock-cut apse of the small Church of Saint Peter. Tradition assigns them to Saints Marinus and Leo, and the page attributes thaumaturgical powers to Marinus’ bed. It also identifies a relief by Romeo Balsimelli showing Marinus with a bear. A religious-route account records another site associated with the saint, an Acquaviva spring used for baptism according to tradition. These objects and locations document a network of devotional interpretation; they do not by themselves demonstrate miraculous healing.",
      "refs": [
        "S1",
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The question worth investigating",
      "text": "When did the bed acquire a healing reputation, and what is the earliest attributable account of someone using it? The stone feature’s creation, assignment to a saint and reputation for effects could belong to different periods.",
      "refs": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Evidence, provenance and uncertainty",
      "text": "The official pages provide no medical case record, controlled study or direct dating of the bed. The spring tradition belongs to another location and cannot corroborate an effect at the bed. An artist’s relief is a representation, not an eyewitness document of the saint’s life.",
      "refs": [
        "S1",
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Inspector’s assessment",
      "text": "The rock-cut feature and its attributed healing tradition are documented. The bed’s historical use by the named saint and a supernatural therapeutic effect remain unestablished in the selected evidence.",
      "refs": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Next research and discriminating evidence",
      "text": "Trace church inventories, guidebooks and attributed accounts of visitors. Record the first mention of the bed and the first healing claim separately. Compare images and architectural surveys for alterations. Any report of recovery needs its own chronology and relevant evidence; the dossier offers no treatment recommendation.",
      "refs": []
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "Undated foundation tradition",
      "text": "The church’s origin is attributed to Saint Marinus.",
      "refs": [
        "S1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "Undated bed attribution",
      "text": "Two rock-cut beds are assigned to Marinus and Leo.",
      "refs": [
        "S1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "Modern devotional route",
      "text": "An official route also records the saint’s baptismal spring tradition.",
      "refs": [
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "30 September 2026",
      "text": "Eklipsis compiles this English documentary investigation from the named sources. No field visit or new eyewitness interview is claimed.",
      "refs": []
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "The official monument page attributes healing powers to a stone bed associated with Saint Marinus.",
      "status": "Documented in the named record",
      "refs": [
        "S1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "Contact with the bed has a demonstrated supernatural healing effect.",
      "status": "Not established by the selected evidence",
      "refs": [
        "S1",
        "S2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "text": "The rock-cut feature and its attributed healing tradition are documented. The bed’s historical use by the named saint and a supernatural therapeutic effect remain unestablished in the selected evidence.",
      "status": "Editorial assessment; stated limits apply",
      "refs": []
    }
  ],
  "hypotheses": [
    {
      "title": "A devotional attribution developed over time",
      "status": "Cultural framework to trace",
      "support": "The page explicitly distinguishes traditions and attributed powers.",
      "limits": "The earliest testimony is not identified.",
      "test": "Compare dated inventories and guidebooks for changing claims."
    },
    {
      "title": "Supernatural healing",
      "status": "Unestablished",
      "support": "A healing reputation is recorded.",
      "limits": "No case-level outcome evidence is supplied.",
      "test": "Assess individually documented claims without treating devotion as a medical measurement."
    }
  ],
  "tasks": [
    {
      "title": "Trace the earliest accessible record",
      "body": "For Saint Marinus’ stone bed: tracing a healing tradition, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable."
    },
    {
      "title": "Investigate the central question",
      "body": "Trace church inventories, guidebooks and attributed accounts of visitors. Record the first mention of the bed and the first healing claim separately. Compare images and architectural surveys for alterations. Any report of recovery needs its own chronology and relevant evidence; the dossier offers no treatment recommendation."
    },
    {
      "title": "Compare explanations without merging evidence",
      "body": "Compare dated inventories and guidebooks for changing claims. Assess individually documented claims without treating devotion as a medical measurement. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed."
    }
  ]
}