Abstract
The significance of the two founder saints to the contribution made by Jesuit
missionaries, many of whom became martyrs, to the making of Roman Catholicism
as a world religion, was made explicit not at the canonization ceremony itself, nor
in the celebratory processions made through the streets of Rome, but in events and
decorations put up within spaces controlled by the Jesuits themselves at the Ges , the
Collegio Romano, and the novitiate of S. Andrea al Quirinale. This points to the wider
phenomenon, pursued in complementary fashion in the six essays that follow: that
how one “became” a saint and came to enjoy a cult (then as now) has more to do with
particular, local appropriation and interpretation (including Rome itself) than with
official papal, universal approbation.
missionaries, many of whom became martyrs, to the making of Roman Catholicism
as a world religion, was made explicit not at the canonization ceremony itself, nor
in the celebratory processions made through the streets of Rome, but in events and
decorations put up within spaces controlled by the Jesuits themselves at the Ges , the
Collegio Romano, and the novitiate of S. Andrea al Quirinale. This points to the wider
phenomenon, pursued in complementary fashion in the six essays that follow: that
how one “became” a saint and came to enjoy a cult (then as now) has more to do with
particular, local appropriation and interpretation (including Rome itself) than with
official papal, universal approbation.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 327-337 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Jesuit Studies |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Mar 2022 |