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Contested Canonizations

The Last Medieval Saints, 1482-1523 [Hardback]

by Ronald C. Finucane

Author
Ronald C. Finucane
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Published
October 2011

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Pope John Paul II famously canonized more saints than all his predecessors combined. Several of these candidates were controversial. To this day thereremain holy men and women on the books of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints whose canonization would provoke considerable debate. This was no less true during the period covered in this pioneering study by renowned medieval historian Ronald C. Finucane. This work, which forms an important bridge between medieval and Counter-Reformation sanctity and canonization, provides a richly contextualized analysis of the ways in which the last five candidates for sainthood before the Reformation came to be canonized. Finucane uncovers the complex interplay of factors that lay behind the success of such campaigns; success that could never be taken for granted, even when the candidate's holy credentials appeared uncontroversial and his backers politically powerful. Written by a master of the historical craft whose studies on miracles and popular religion for the high Middle Ages have long been an important point of reference for students, this work presents brilliantly reconstructed case studies of the last five successful canonization petitions of the Middle Ages: Bonaventure, Leopold of Austria, Francis of Paola, Antoninus of Florence, and Benno of Meissen.