The “Odor of Sanctity.” Veneration and Politics in Leonard Lessius’s Cause for Beatification (Seventeenth–Twentieth Centuries)

After his death in 1623, the Flemish Jesuit Leonard Lessius (Lenaert Leys, 1554–1623) became the object of public veneration—never approved by the Roman church—that aimed at promoting his beatification. The cult of this theologian, based on many supposed miraculous healings, increased in the sevente...

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Main Author: Rai, Eleonora (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 238-258
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KCD Hagiography; saints
KDB Roman Catholic Church
Further subjects:B Leonard Lessius cause for beatification policy of sainthood relics miraculous healings Robert Bellarmine Congregation of the Index Holy Office theological controversies of Leuven Flemish Jesuits
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