IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1630: Saints at the Margins, IV: Saints, but by a Whisker
Thursday 6 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | ERC Project 'Cult of Saints', University of Oxford |
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| Organisers: | Bryan Ward-Perkins, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | Julia M. H. Smith, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1630-a | The Mysterious Origins of the Cult of Torpes of Pisa (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1630-b | A Saint with Hagiography but No Cult: Antony, Archbishop of Thessaloniki († 843) (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The four sessions of 'Saints at the Margins' explore the lower reaches of sainthood: men and women who nearly, but didn't quite make it into sainthood; and those who just succeeded in being accepted as saints, sometimes only to sink slowly back into oblivion. This fourth and final session examines saints who achieved sainthood from unpromising beginnings - in some cases later acquiring a flourishing cult; in others never really attracting veneration, or subsequently fading into obscurity. |