Although some popes already enjoyed saint-like veneration, papal sanctity significantly increased during the ecclesiastical reform in the eleventh century. After all, it was Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) – one of the main protagonists of the reform – who stated in his Dictatus papae that «The Bishop of Rome, if he has been ordained according to canon law, is undoubtedly made a saint through the merits of blessed Peter […]». These ideas draw attention to general strategies of representation, especially regarding the cult of Early Christian popes (such as Clement I). The increasing worship they enjoyed can be noticed not least in contemporary pictorial programmes. The paper deals with the propagation of early popes as “new saints” and seeks to...
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In the wake of the death of (anti)pope Clement III at Civita Castellana in the year 1100, a series o...
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Braschi, commendatory Abbot of Subiaco, became Pope Pius VI in 1775; shortl...
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Braschi, commendatory Abbot of Subiaco, became Pope Pius VI in 1775; shortl...
EnOne of the preventive strategies used, during and after the Council of Trent, by the prelates of S...
Giovanni do Medici was made Abbot of Fonte-dolce at the age of seven, Pope Sixtus IV confirming the ...
The paper focuses on the theory of art outlined by Giovanni Battista Montini (1897-1978) – usually k...
The paper deals with the patronage of Constantine and of his mother Helena in the New Rome and beyon...
The histories of particular cities and states within that myriad-faceted slice of civilisation, the...
The study of an Italian historian of Christianity Roberto Rusconi: Santo Padre. La santità del papa...
This paper analyzes the setting up of the cult of Saint Jerome in Rome at the end of the 13th centur...
The Pope John Paul I is an outstanding religious representative of the Catholic Church who significa...
In his twenty-seven year reign (1978-2005), Pope John Paul II created not only more saints than any...
This research aims at studying the role of the relics in establishing the papal political control be...
The article summarizes the life of Giuseppe Sarto and analyzes his most important decisions after he...
The article, after a brief discussion about the theological idea of Christian martyrdom, outlines a ...
In the wake of the death of (anti)pope Clement III at Civita Castellana in the year 1100, a series o...
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Braschi, commendatory Abbot of Subiaco, became Pope Pius VI in 1775; shortl...
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Braschi, commendatory Abbot of Subiaco, became Pope Pius VI in 1775; shortl...
EnOne of the preventive strategies used, during and after the Council of Trent, by the prelates of S...
Giovanni do Medici was made Abbot of Fonte-dolce at the age of seven, Pope Sixtus IV confirming the ...
The paper focuses on the theory of art outlined by Giovanni Battista Montini (1897-1978) – usually k...
The paper deals with the patronage of Constantine and of his mother Helena in the New Rome and beyon...
The histories of particular cities and states within that myriad-faceted slice of civilisation, the...