The secularisation of St Francis of Assisi
St Francis of Assisi, mystic, stigmatic and founder of the Franciscans, has come to seem uncontroversial, a saint for ecologists, socialists and animal lovers as well as Christians of all denominations. Until his rediscovery by the Victorians, Francis was firmly associated with Roman Catholic doctri...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2017]
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British Catholic history
Jahr: 2017, Band: 33, Heft: 3, Seiten: 401-420 |
| IxTheo Notationen: | KAE Kirchengeschichte 900-1300; Hochmittelalter KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit KCD Hagiographie; Heilige KDB Katholische Kirche |
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B Lives of Saints B Popes B Secularisation B English Catholic B Victorian B Assisi B Saint |
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| Zusammenfassung: | St Francis of Assisi, mystic, stigmatic and founder of the Franciscans, has come to seem uncontroversial, a saint for ecologists, socialists and animal lovers as well as Christians of all denominations. Until his rediscovery by the Victorians, Francis was firmly associated with Roman Catholic doctrine, obedience to the papacy, participation in crusades and distinctively Catholic mystical phenomena. This article argues that Faber's, Oliphant's and Sabatier's nineteenth-century Lives of St Francis opened the way for his appropriation by the general British public. The resulting denominational competition over the saint stimulated a boom in St Francis' popularity but also led to his piecemeal secularisation. |
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| ISSN: | 2055-7981 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: British Catholic history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/bch.2017.4 |
