Making Saints in a “Glocal” Religion

Practices of Holiness in Early Modern Catholicism

Contributions by Nadine Amsler Contributions by Andreea Badea Contributions by Jodi Bilinkoff Contributions by Simon Ditchfield Contributions by Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux Contributions by Christophe Duhamelle Contributions by Birgit Emich Contributions by Maria Teresa Fattori Contributions by Markus Friedrich Contributions by Raphaèle Preisinger Contributions by Daniel Sidler Contributions by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger Contributions by Cécile Vincent-Cassy Contributions by Alexandra Walsham Contributions by Samuel Weber Contributions by Christian Windler Contributions by Philipp Zwyssig Edited by Birgit Emich Edited by Daniel Sidler Edited by Samuel Weber Edited by Christian Windler Series edited by Nadine Amsler Series edited by Andreea Badea Series edited by Birgit Emich Series edited by Markus Friedrich Series edited by Christian Windler

Book cover: Making Saints in a “Glocal” Religion

Extent: 514 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Kulturen des Christentums / Cultures of Christianity

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2024)

ISBN: 9783412529796

6.89 x 9.65 inches

Price: $125.00

In stock

Early modern Catholicism was a “glocal” affair: global in aspiration yet diverse in its local manifestations. Saint-making was no exception. In the wake of the Council of Trent, the Roman Church developed complex bureaucratic procedures through which the papacy proclaimed the saints of the Church Universal. But these procedures remained contingent on Catholics’ active veneration of holy men and women before their formal canonization.


Early modern Catholicism was a “glocal” affair: global in aspiration yet diverse in its local manifestations. Saint-making was no exception. In the wake of the Council of Trent, the Roman Church developed complex bureaucratic procedures through which the papacy proclaimed the saints of the Church Universal. But these procedures remained contingent on Catholics’ active veneration of holy men and women before their formal canonization and the faithful’s willingness to reappropriate Roman saints locally once the papacy had reached a verdict. This volume brings together the work of leading international specialists to show how early modern sanctity was produced, framed, and spread: far from being imposed uniformly upon a global Catholic community by the Roman center, saints were the product of constant negotiations between the global Church and local Catholics living in the four corners of the early modern world.

  • Contributions by Nadine Amsler
  • Contributions by Andreea Badea
  • Contributions by Jodi Bilinkoff
  • Contributions by Simon Ditchfield
  • Contributions by Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux
  • Contributions by Christophe Duhamelle
  • Contributions by Birgit Emich
  • Contributions by Maria Teresa Fattori
  • Contributions by Markus Friedrich
  • Contributions by Raphaèle Preisinger
  • Contributions by Daniel Sidler
  • Contributions by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
  • Contributions by Cécile Vincent-Cassy
  • Contributions by Alexandra Walsham
  • Contributions by Samuel Weber
  • Contributions by Christian Windler
  • Contributions by Philipp Zwyssig
  • Edited by Birgit Emich
  • Edited by Daniel Sidler
  • Edited by Samuel Weber
  • Edited by Christian Windler
  • Series edited by Nadine Amsler
  • Series edited by Andreea Badea
  • Series edited by Birgit Emich
  • Series edited by Markus Friedrich
  • Series edited by Christian Windler