The Making of a Counter-Reformation Saint
by
Dr Clare Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This work offers a detailed reconstruction of the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification (in 1626) and subsequent canonization in 1169 of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). Clare Copeland places her findings in the wide context of the politics of saint-making...