The Voices of the Saints: Speaking Reliquaries

Hahn, Cynthia

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“…58 DELEHAYE, 1907; FERNÁNDEZ CATÓN, 1983. 59 PESSOA, 2007Esta É a Cabeça de São Pantaleão, 2003;PALMEIRÃO, 2015;SALOIO, 2016;HAHN, 1997;Olor de Santidad, 2004; VAN OS et al, 2000;BAGNOLI et al, eds., 2011. 60 BOUTRY, FABRE, JULIA, eds., 2009WALSHAM, ed., 2010;FREEMAN, 2011. Sesión XXV del Concilio de Trento, del 3 y 4 de diciembre de 1563, donde la Iglesia de Roma examinaría las críticas de idolatría y superstición implícitas en el culto de imágenes, santos y reliquias.…”

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El Culto de Reliquias en Portugal en los siglos XVI y XVII: Contexto, Norma, Función y Simbolismo

Capelão¹

2022

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El Culto de Reliquias en Portugal en los siglos XVI y XVII: Contexto, Norma, Función y Simbolismo

Capelão¹

2022

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“…Without proper identifi cation and a cultural matrix -what medieval sources call a proper veneration -relics remain inert. ' 52 Ultimately, Hahn argued, the reliquary functioned as a sign. Th e precipitous ridge of Mount Subasio could be said to have taken on a similar role -when St Francis died, the mountain became a living reliquary.…”

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Building paradise on the Hill of Hell in Assisi: Mountain as reliquary

Gunzburg¹

2021

Space, Place, and Religious Landscapes

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Th e town of Assisi in Umbria, Italy, located on a sloping and precipitous mountain ridge halfway up the dome-shaped, wood-covered sides of Mount Subasio, has long been known as the birthplace of Franciscanism. Today the Basilica that houses the human remains of St Francis ( c. 1181/2-1226), the founder and leader of the Friars Minor, draws pilgrims and visitors alike, either to worship or admire the beauty of the architecture and fresco schemes. Th is infl ux of people makes Assisi one of Italy's prime tourist attractions. It wasn't always so. Th e journey to its transformation is also an exploration of the creation of a sacred and religious landscape via one man, St Francis of Assisi, one of a handful of historical fi gures associated with a town and a mountain. 1 Th is chapter thus investigates a unique human conversation with a mountain and how mountainous land that a community considered wild and barbaric can be changed by what they buried in it. It also explores what is believed about human remains that are buried, and how burials in such terrain aff ect a people's activities around the mountain and thus change the dynamics between human and mountain. It centres around the events that occurred following the death of St Francis and the desire by the Franciscan brothers to create a lasting monument to his memory via his human remains. St Francis was considered to be a phenomenon of his time and his life was full of paradox. A small, dark, nuggety man, born to a wealthy cloth merchant, he was educated as a youth and dreamed of being a knight, yet in adulthood he lived a life of poverty, dressed only in tunic, rope belt, and sandals. 2 Although actively engaged with towns, St Francis sought inner peace in a hermitage, Eremo delle Carceri, 4 kilometres from Assisi, built on a rocky outcrop in a steep forest gorge 791 metres above sea level, and higher up the steep slopes of Mount Subasio. His other sanctuary

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“…Arm reliquaries of bishop saints tended to have either an open hand or a blessing gesture. 67 These so-called 'speaking reliquaries' could be shown wearing episcopal gloves or fitted-out in actual gloves. 68 The blessing of the bishop-saint, visualised through an appropriately shaped reliquary, was sufficiently important to override any need for the form of the container to echo its contents.…”

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In persona Christi

Warr

2019

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

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Within the Catholic Church from around the tenth century onwards, liturgical gloves could be worn on specific occasions by those of the rank of bishop and above. Using a pair of seventeenth-century gloves in the Whitworth as a basis for further exploration, this article explores the meanings ascribed to liturgical gloves and the techniques used to make them. It argues that, within the ceremony of the mass, gloves had a specific role to play in allowing bishops to function performatively in the role of Christ.

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The Voices of the Saints: Speaking Reliquaries

Cited by 67 publications

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El Culto de Reliquias en Portugal en los siglos XVI y XVII: Contexto, Norma, Función y Simbolismo

El Culto de Reliquias en Portugal en los siglos XVI y XVII: Contexto, Norma, Función y Simbolismo

Building paradise on the Hill of Hell in Assisi: Mountain as reliquary

In persona Christi

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