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Sanctity and the refashioning of early modern Catholicism: Saints and their causes between Rome and locality

Machielsen, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8492-0263 2023. Sanctity and the refashioning of early modern Catholicism: Saints and their causes between Rome and locality. Papers of the British School at Rome 91 , pp. 347-348. 10.1017/S0068246223000181

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Abstract

Why did the Catholic Church, a faith defined by its cult of saints, find it so difficult to create new ones at the time of its greatest crisis? Historians have long noticed a long gap in saint-making following the Reformation. After 1523 there were to be no new saints for 63 years, a situation Peter Burke memorably attributed to a ‘failure of papal nerve’. The hesitant resumption of saint-making in 1588 created the modern machinery of canonization, but few benefited. The path to sainthood was beset by bureaucratic hurdles and roadblocks, which remained in place until Pope John Paul II transformed canonization into a veritable assembly line. The first post-Reformation saint, Carlo Borromeo, was not created until 1610; in 1634 a papal bull Cælestis Hierusalem Cives imposed further restrictions targeted explicitly at other beati moderni and was followed by another nearly 25-year pause.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DG Italy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0068-2462
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 1 February 2024
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2024 08:33
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166030

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