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Contested Canonizations : The Last Medieval Saints, 1482-1523 /

Pope John Paul II famously canonized more saints than all his predecessors combined. Several of these candidates were controversial. To this day there remain holy men and women "on the books" of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints whose canonization would provoke consi...

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Auteur principal: Finucane, Ronald C.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Saint-making at the end of the Middle Ages
  • The embattled friar : Bonaventure (c. 1220-74, cd. 1482)
  • The good duke : Leopold of Austria (c. 1073-1136, cd. 1485)
  • The hermit-ambassador : Francis of Paola (c. 1416-1507, cd. 1519)
  • The reforming friar-archbishop : Antoninus of Florence (1389-1459, cd. 1523)
  • Luther's devil-god : Benno of Meissen (c. 1040-1106, cd. 1523)
  • Conclusion.