Role of English Franciscans in the canonization processes in the 13th – early 14th centuries
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2018-10-36-44
Abstract
The article is devoted to the role of English Minorities in the canonization processes of the 13th – early 14th centuries. Franciscan friars often were members of canonization commissions. They were to enquire into the life and miracles of the candidate and send the evidence of sanctity they collected to the pope. The analysis of canonization of St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, and St. Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford makes it possible to identify reasons for participation of friars in such church affairs, as well as their influence on the canonization processes.
This paper is focused on miracles that were selected by procurators for canonization of Edmund of Abingdon and Thomas de Cantilupe. Those miracles were remarkably similar to “examples” of the “Liber exemplorum”, a manual for the use of preachers, and miracles of “Legenda S. Francisci” of Bonaventura. In many cases miraculous healing or salvation happened with children and convicts. The author suggests that an increase in the number of such miracles in reports of canonization commissions of the 13th – early 14th centuries was connected with intellectual and preaching activities of mendicant orders.
About the Author
O. S. Silina
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga S. Silina - postgraduate student.
bld. 6, Miusskaya sq., Moscow, 125993.
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Silina O.S. Role of English Franciscans in the canonization processes in the 13th – early 14th centuries. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2018;(10):36-44. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2018-10-36-44
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