medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
My favorite case of long-after canonization is Jeanne
d'Arc, who died in the early 15th c. and was canonized
in 1920 (I think). Did "la grande guerre" perhaps play
a role?
MG
--- Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I tend to include dates of beatification and
> canonization when they're
> striking---particularly soon after death, or a
> particularly long time
> after---because I often wonder why it happened when
> it did.
>
> Canonization can take such a long time for a variety
> of reasons. Most
> often, there has been a continual popular veneration
> of the potential
> saint, but there has been no particularly strong
> advocate for the Cause.
> Before John Paul II re-organized and streamlined the
> canonization process,
> it seems to have been next to impossible for a
> figure to be canonized
> unless a major religious order supported the cause.
> One of the notable
> changes with the reform of the canonization process
> is that now diocesan
> bishops have a much larger say in the matter, and
> thus have a much greater
> chance of winning universal acknowledgement for
> their local cults. When
> nineteenth- or twentieth-century popes proclaimed a
> much earlier figure as
> a saint, in many cases they seem to have done so
> because either 1) some
> person or organization of power advocated the
> canonization, or 2) the
> canonization particularly fit the pontiff's current
> "agenda" (such as a
> strong emphasis on missionary endeavors, or an
> effort to show the RC church
> as more inclusive, or an effort to acknowledge the
> holy people of an
> underrepresented region).
>
> Anyone care to take it from there? I confess that
> my knowledge of
> post-Reformation Roman Catholicism is spotty at
> best.
>
> Phyllis
>
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of
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> >Dear Phyllis Jestice: Why are so many saints
> recognized like Simon
> >Ballachi long after their deaths? He was four
> hundred years afte his
> >death and I notgice that not a few are so
> designated, as, for
> >example, a group of English martyrs. Yours, John
> Mundy
> >
>
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