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This article discusses the various theatrical and spectacular elements integrated into the hagiographic celebrations, both paratheatrical and more specifically theatrical performances. Based mainly in the Jesuit relations of the feasts of the first and last decades of the seventeenth century with the beatification and canonization of San Ignacio, San Francisco Javier and San Francisco de Borja. The article highlights a number of references and aspects on the comedies, tragedies, dialogues and other theatrical forms that were an essential part of hagiographic celebrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the concepts behind the terms blest and blessed. It notes that the words blest and blessed are not synonymous in both the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament. Lexical information on the Hebrew terms is provided which includes the verbal root, cognate term and similar term. It also discusses the Greek term for blessed in which the term makarios has been associated to gods, dead and elite.

During his long pontificate, John Paul II pursued a wide and carefully articulated policy of canonisations whose aim was to underwrite his magisterium by presenting hagiographical models that would convey well-defined pastoral teaching and contain both ecclesiastical and ecclesiological messages for the faithful. The high number of Italians declared blessed and/or made saints analysed in the present article is proof of the special interest the Pope showed in Italy and specifically in the sanctity of the country. The high concentration of beatifications and canonisations of hagiographical figures from Italy can be explained only in part by the canonical system, which regulates the process of canonisation and which makes it easier to open and support a cause, above all from a financial point of view, if the pressure group behind the candidate for sainthood is located near the Vatican. More precisely, what emerges is both the attempt to create a specific public image of Italy as a nation which has been a historic stronghold of Catholicism and is still capable of reacting to secularisation, and the objective of laying down more effective guidelines and robust directives for civil society. In other words, by proposing Italian hagiographical models, John Paul II was striving to mould Italy's national identity in a Christian form, conferring on the country the role of model for other European states. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article edits and contextualizes two of the villancicos that Calderón de la Barca composed for the festivities celebrated in 1668 in the Madrid convent of Santo Domingo el Real. The occasion was the beatification of Rosa de Santa María who, at her canonization, would be called St Rose of Lima and also St Rose of Peru. Neither poem had been reprinted since that year when they were included in the account of the festivities written by Nicolás Matías del Campo de la Rinaga, who was one of the sponsors of the celebration. Nor can they be found among the poetic works attributed to Calderón de la Barca. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on Saint Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian order, and his writings. Bruno died on October 6, 1101, in Calabria, Italy, and his death is considered painful for his companions and his brothers of the Chartreuse. Bruno's body was buried in the cemetery of the hermitage in bare earth which is the custom among Carthusians and his canonization was not done until 1514.

The article discusses the beatification of John Henry Newman on September 19, 2010. Newman was the first English person who has lived since the 17th century, officially recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Details on his early life as well as his accomplishments in the religious society are also highlighted.

The "punctum dolens" of the debate on the so-called "Faith of Jesus" concerns the recognition or aprioristic refusal of the immediate and blessed vision of the Father in pre-Easter Christ. The supporters of the thesis of the faith of Jesus intend to refute the doctrine of the threefold science of Christ, scientia visionis, beatifica, acquisita. However, their motivations are not well founded. The contrary, the presence in Christ the vision of the Father, immediate, thematic and aware is a matter of narrative Christology. Then, theologically there are three reasons that underlie this point of view: it is an intrinsically required of the hypostatic union; it is the foundation of his mission revealing and redeeming; finally, does not seem to, adversely affecting his true humanity, nor it makes less painful his passion. In conclusion, in the NT Jesus is never presented as the subject of faith, but its object. He has no faith but it arouses. If in fact the faith is «the substance of things which are hoped for and the trial of things not seen» (Heb 11:1), Jesus Christ did not have this faith, since he "sees" the Father and sees in him the mysterious plan of salvation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses "Gospel Remission,"a series of sermons by Jeremiah Burroughs. The author mentions that the sermons, published in 1668, are based on the Scripture text Psalm 32:1: "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." For Burroughs, these words are the genuine voice of a true penitent, one that has admiring thoughts of the blessedness of the pardoned sin. The article also discusses how Burroughs handled the positive aspect of sin being forgiven.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is pursuing an unpopular campaign to discipline American nuns who supported the Obama administration's healthcare initiative. The campaign has boosted the nuns' popularity and further damaged the Catholic hierarchy's public image. In response, the bishops have adopted Dorothy Day's sainthood cause as a means of regaining authority and of criticizing disobedient Catholics safely. The bishops shift the focus from present difficulties to their official role in the making of saints to bolster their authority. To persuade Catholics to support their campaign against birth control they reconfigure Dorothy Day as an exemplar of orthodox belief. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the influence of Anselm on scholastic Christology and his claims for the incarnation's necessity as presented in his book "Cur Deus Homo." The author states that the use of modal categories of Anselm shape for much of scholastic Christology. The author also mentions the link provided by the text "Summa halensis" regarding fittingness of incarnation with beatification of human and its weak necessity with sin.

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The article presents a portrayal of French Cardinal and Saint Pierre de Luxembourg from the Protestant Reformation to the Counter-Reformation, the reform movement by the Catholic Church in response to the Reformation. It discusses his beatification which was pronounced by Roman Pope Clément VII on April 9, 1527. It discusses the booklet to which de Luxembourg is attributed titled "Livre de monseigneur sainct Pierre de Lucembourg, lequel il envoya à une sienne seur pour la retraite des estatz mondains, intitulé La diete de salut." The author states that this booklet was printed five times between 1490 and 1525 and republished in Avignon, France, in 1562 under the titled "Voyage spirituel du pelerin de saincte mere l'Eglise Romaine," by Pierre de Sure.

The article offers the author's insights on the debate regarding the beatification of Eugenio Pacelli, who was Pope Pius XII. The author says that Pacelli bore a responsibility for the commencement of World War I and for the demise of the Centre Party in Germany. He adds that the beatification would signify its association with Pacelli's contribution to human suffering. Furthermore , the role of Pacelli to the rise of power of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is discussed.

The article offers news briefs related to the topic of the Catholic Church and its history. The Canadian Catholic Historical Association will hold its annual meeting from May 28-29, 2012. The beatification of several individuals is noted including bishop Michael F. Burbidge, laywoman Catherine "Kateri" Tekakwitha, and scholar Hildegard Burjan. The Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy hosts the exhibition "Lux in Arcana: The Vatican Secret Archives Unveiled" from March 1 to September 9, 2012.

The article discussed the medieval exegesis of beatus vir in Dante Allighieri's sacred poem "Commedia." It explores the Commedia's vision of man en route to beatitude which is founded on the tradition of patristic and medieval exegesis. It cites Saint Thomas Aquinas's description of the way to salvation and the procession to beatitude in the Commedia to Psalm 1 and Jeremiah 17. It also mentions how Dante has been made blessed and become beatus vir, an ever-verdant tree in God's beatitude, through his poem wherein he become himself in his account of being engrafted into the true blessed Man, the giver of salvation, of beatitude.

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On the occasion of the beatification of Sr. Jula Ivanisevic and four Sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, who were massacred on 15 December 1941 at Gorazde (Eastern Bosnia) as representatives of the Catholic faith, the author presents a short history of the church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary in Sarajevo, in which the Martyrs of the Drina River professed their religious vows. The church was designed by Sarajevo architect Josip Vancas and built by Sarajevo contractor Ludwig Jungwirth. The building was consecrated by the bishop of Ljubljana, Anton Bonaventura Jeglic, on 1 October 1911. A. B. Jeglic was canon in Sarajevo from 1882 to 1898 and chaplain to the Daughters of Divine Charity, who came to Sarajevo from Vienna in April 1882 and soon opened a Grammar school for boys and girls, teaching, among other things, Croatian and German language. They also opened a Girls Teacher Training College at which Canon Jeglic taught pedagogy and for which he published his own manual for students. When in May 1945 the communists seized power in Yugoslavia they nationalized the schools operated by the Sisters and on 6 June 1949 they also expropriated the convent building so that 125 sisters and 15 novices had to move out immediately. Just four of them were able to take up residence in a building in the courtyard of their former convent. Other sisters had to go to their families or were accommodated in two monasteries of the Bosnian Franciscans. Sisters who remained in Sarajevo took care of their church and of elderly persons in their neighborhood. Thanks to domestic and foreign donors they were able to renovate the church in 1971, 1982 and 2008. During World War Two Bosnia and Herzegovina was included in the so-called Independent State of Croatia, which was a protectorate of Hitler's Germany. Orthodox Cetniks were Serbian militia fighting against the officially Catholic Croatian dictatorial regime in Eastern Bosnia. On 11 December 1941 they broke into the convent of the Daughters of Divine Charity at Pale, burned down the convent with the chapel and forcibly took five sisters who were serving Orthodox and other neighbors in that predominantly Orthodox town. Sister Berchmana Leidenix was 76 and could not walk through the snow in the cold winter weather. She was left in the village of Sjetlina and killed on 21 December. Superior Sr. Jula Ivanisevic, Sr. Krizina Bojanc, Sr. Antonija Fabjan and Sr. Bernadeta Banja were taken to the military barracks at Gorazde. On 15 December Cetniks tried to rape them in a room on the second floor where they had incarcerated them but the sisters jumped out of the window and were seriously injured. The Cetniks massacred them and the next day threw their corpses into the River Drina. The process for their beatification was conducted in Sarajevo from 1999 to 2002 and in Rome from 2003 to January of 2011. They were beatified on 24 September 2011 in Sarajevo. The Sisters will erect an altar in their honor in the church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary in Sarajevo, in which the Martyrs of the Drina professed their religious vows. In consequence, this church will become their shrine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the political thought of John Newman, who was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI, on Irish nationalism. Information is presented on his views on the demand of political independence by Irish nationalist while he was the rector of the catholic university. Also discussed is his equation with the radical nationalist groups of Ireland.

The article presents a speech by Romanus Cessario, Order of Preachers at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, delivered during the celebration of the beatification of John Henry Newman at the Toronto Oratory in Ontario on October 3, 2010 in which he preached about the Oratory, Newman's heroic priestly virtues, and the Dominican Order.

This article aims to present the early portraits of the martyr Josaphat Kuntsevych. The text briefly outlines the most important features of the martyr's depiction and the main types of his portrait that late became spread in various forms. Real images (vera effigies) and their origin were closely related to the place where that person lived or worked (loca sancta). A true portrait of Josaphat Kuntsevych was commissioned in Vilnius when his beatification process was being prepared. Vilnius, where the martyr had spent a considerable period of his life, had huge significance upon the formation of the real portrait image of the Saint. The article discusses a few image types of Josaphat Kuntsevych that illustrate the development of the iconography of the saint through his artistic depiction. We may exclude the two main stages of the portrait image's formation. During the first stage - from the death of Josaphat Kuntsevych (1623) until his announcement as Blessed (1642) - portraits were spread which bore his true appearance. In the first graphic portraits of Josaphat known to us, the martyr is depicted without the tools of martyrdom, with emphasis placed on those distinct features which best reflected his actual appearance. During the second stage (after his beatification, after 1642), an image of him as a martyr was created - with an axe in his head and a palm branch in his hand. This portrait then went onto become the iconographic image of Josaphat Kuntsevych. This image which had its own distinct iconographical varieties spread throughout church art in the GDL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A report on the 11th annual meeting of the Arbeitskreis Ordensgeschichte 19./20. Jahrhundert (Working Group on the History of Religious Orders in the 19th and 20th Centuries), held February 4-6, 2011, at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule (Philosophical-Theological College) in Vallendar, Germany, is presented, which focused primarily on the history of missions and on the beatification process for the founders of religious orders.

The Beatification of John Henry Newman during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain in September 2010 focused attention not only on Newman's life and pilgrimage, but on the continuing significance of his theology. In an age in which the voices of secular humanism are strident, and where it seems to be becoming increasingly difficult to justify the place of theology in the academy, Newman's much earlier wrestling with these questions became the focus of a number of articles in educational journals at the time of his beatification, though not all were based on the reading of primary texts. His thought would repay a much deeper examination: it has a great deal of value for us today, as this article also hopes to show. Like Newman, it touches on many questions - the nature of theology, the place of the Church, the value of tradition, and how all of these relate to an understanding of education which takes seriously the ultimate questions raised by theology and religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents the author's insights regarding the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman and his legacy and works which signify parochial sermons and spirituality. It states that the beatification of Newman by Pope Benedict XVI has brought him to become the most significant figure of nineteenth-century Catholicism. It notes that the legacy of Newman continues to represent as a source of vitality and challenge for the contemporary Church. It notes that the profusion of insight and personal value made Newman to become candidate of sainthood. It cites various literary works which reflect the progress of Newman's life and spirituality.

John Henry Cardinal Newman has always perplexed his readers. His contemporaries wondered if Newman was a heretic or a saint. Since his death, the debate about Newman's real identity has continued unabated. On the threshold of Newman's beatification, this essay looks at Newman's life and work, and at the ways in which scholarly readers of Newman produce seemingly contradictory accounts of this potential saint. If canonized, which Newman has become a saint? Zygmunt Bauman's reading of ambivalence as the 'waste of modernity' suggests that a canonized Newman may yield less ordered notions of sanctity and devotion than anticipated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Augustinian friar Alipio di San Giuseppe of Palermo. Reference is made to the history of Alipio di San Giuseppe as a captive, apostate, and then sainthood candidate. Topics discussed include background information on his capture and conversion to Islam, as well as his choice of martyrdom; the beatification process for him which was initiated by the Tomasi family of Sicily, and archival materials concerning the ordinarae inquisitiones proceedings which occurred in 1654 to 1656.

This article commemorates the 80th anniversary of the death of Spanish Roman Catholic Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val. It describes the relationship between del Val and Pope Pius X and compares their religious worldviews. The author comments on del Val's religious life, including his appointment to the position of Cardinal Secretary of State under Pius X in the early 20th century. He also chronicles the process of his canonization and beatification in the 1950s.

The article presents a reprint of the article "University of Santo Tomas (UST) Professors and Martyrs: A Destiny of Christian Witnessing," by Fidel Villaroel. It discusses the planned beatification of the sixteen martyrs who died in the fourth decade of the 17th century in Nagasaki, Japan for the Christian faith in Manila, Philippines in 2009. Five of the candidates for beatification came from UST, including Father Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia, Father Lucas del Espíritu Santo, and Father Guillermo Courtet.

The most studied source for Gerald Odonis' doctrine of the beatific vision is the text of his Advent 1333 disputed question known as his Quodlibet. The polemic nature of the question and its structural idiosyncrasies have led to difficulties in interpreting Odonis' theory of the “middle vision” of the divine essence that the separate souls of the blessed have, as well as in understanding his defense of Pope John XXII's controversial opinion (which excludes such a middle vision). By relating Odonis' 1333 disputation to his earlier commentary on the Sentences, most notably his systematic discussion of the beatific vision in book IV, this paper shows how Odonis tried to fit his doctrine of the “middle vision” with his previous discussion, which itself reflects the influence of the 1317 publication of the acts of the 1311-12 Council of Vienne. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teresa of Jesus became known in Italy at the end of the 16th century through the presence of her sons and daughters and through her writings, which were published in the original language and in translations, thanks in large part to the Oratorians of Rome. The canonization process, which reached its culmination in 1622, encouraged the production of literary and artistic works. By the end of the 17th century, the theological elaboration of her thought achieved acceptance as a crucial element in controversies concerning mystical theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the road traveled by Mother Teresa of Jesus from her death in 1582, in the arms of Ana de San Bartolomé, to her canonization. The Processes, which were so rich and exceptionally abundant in testimonies, demonstrate the recognition of the Saint's heroic virtues and holiness of life, which culminated in her beatification and canonization, events which were a source of joy and celebration in Rome and in other parts of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the proclamation of Joan of Arc as saint in Europe. It states that Joan was announced venerable in 1894, blessed in 1909 and canonized in 1920. It avers that all the three dates are important in French and European politics. The popularity of Joan surged after the incorporation of Alsace-Lorraine and the German victory over France. In addition, Joan later became the heroine who had freed her country from a foreign invader, a reality that vibrated in the wake of German incursions into France.

The article announces the beatification of Louis Martin and Zélie Guerin, the parents of French saint Thérèse de Lisieux, on October 19, 2008.

An interview with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) is presented. Ratzinger addresses opposition in Latin America to certain positions taken by the Holy See, declares that the greatest problem facing the preaching of faith is losing touch with truth, and comments on the significance of the mass for the beatification of Teresa de Los Andes in Chile in 1987.

The article discusses the significant contribution of Austrian peasant farmer Franz Jägerstätter to the realization of true martyrdom and sainthood. It notes the controversy left by the beatification of Jägerstätter that includes his belief and notion about pacifism and justice brought up against the principles of Nazi war. It also mentions the teachings of saints Aquinas and Agustine about the reality of wars and the benefit of doing what is for the greater good.

The article discusses the text "Sanctorum Mater" which contains instructions for the canonization of new saints. The text is broken up into six detailed parts which outline the development and procedure that should be followed, according to canon law. The article provides a section which details each of the six parts of the text, including the specific tribunal process that needs to be followed and the time-frame for conducting tribunals. The article concludes with an explanation of the differences between beatification and canonization.

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