Dying in the Odor of Sanctity: Philip Neri and the Performance of Saintly Death in Catholic Reformation Rome
For the four-hundredth anniversary of the canonization of Philip Neri, this paper proposes to analyze important elements of Neri's sanctity. In particular, it focuses on what Oratorian hagiographers emphasized about his life and his holiness in their creation of his saintly reputation. I argue...
| Subtitles: | "Pillars of a Sacred World The 1622 Canonizations and the Rise of Modern Catholic Sanctity; Guest Editors: Franco Motta and Eleonora Rai" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2022, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 317-339 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KCD Hagiography; saints KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Mysticism
B Asceticism B dying well B Oratorians B Philip Neri |
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| Summary: | For the four-hundredth anniversary of the canonization of Philip Neri, this paper proposes to analyze important elements of Neri's sanctity. In particular, it focuses on what Oratorian hagiographers emphasized about his life and his holiness in their creation of his saintly reputation. I argue that death and dying was a central aspect of Philipine sanctity. In his life and ministries, modeling himself after Christian solitary ascetic monks and charitable caregiving mendicants, Philip Neri's life revolved around death. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-6656 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2022-2032 |