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Official Sanctity Alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo, And Giacomo Salomani, Karen Mccluskey
Official Sanctity Alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo, And Giacomo Salomani, Karen Mccluskey
Karen McCluskey
Throughout late medieval and Renaissance Italy, pious men and women were recognized as saints during their own lifetime and accorded at least local veneration at the site of their tomb after death. Despite the absence of formal canonization, such cults were often promoted by local governments keen to enlist the beati as potent new intercessors for their native town. My paper explores the extent to which Venice both conformed to and departed from this pattern. Despite the existence of many local cults, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries only three local beati were officially recognized: Pietro Orseolo (d. 976), Gerardo …
Miraculous Visions: Apparitio In The Vitae Of Mediaeval Venetian Saints And Beati, Karen Mccluskey
Miraculous Visions: Apparitio In The Vitae Of Mediaeval Venetian Saints And Beati, Karen Mccluskey
Karen McCluskey
Miraculous visions have played a critical role in reinforcing Venice’s self-perceived identity as God’s favoured locus sanctus from as early as the 10th century. Divine appearances from a cast of hallowed individuals characterises the earliest foundational legends of the city. Indeed, accounts of Mark the Evangelist’s association with Venice are replete with visions from on high, most famously his own apparitio, the miraculous reappearance of his lost relics, dated to June 25, 1094. Thereafter, accounts of apparitio figure prominently in the pictorial narratives of St. Mark’s life in the basilica of San Marco, they pepper the Venetian liturgical …