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This volume analyses the phenomenon of the thefts of sacred relics in Medieval Italy, in particular through the stealthy translationes, the hagiographic stories narrating the transfer of the relics from one place to another after they were stolen. Thanks to the study of historical contexts, narrative dynamics, literary themes and anthropological aspects, the book attempts to reconstruct the richness and complexity of the phenomenon over the centuries, tracing the history of this specific aspect of the cult of saints, which is also the history of the culture and religious imagery of the Middle Ages.

Christian saints --- Cult --- History of doctrines

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Christian saints in art --- Nicholas, --- Nicholas, --- Art. --- Cult.

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The Miracle of Saint Mina is one of the core texts in the small corpus of texts written in Old Nubian, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken between the third and fourth cataract of the Nile river until about the fifteenth century, and written in an adaptation of the Coptic script. It is one of the oldest written indigenous African languages. The Miracle of Saint Mina, most probably written around 1000 A.D., is a classical miracle story featuring one of the most well-known Egyptian saints. This publication features a translation of the text into one of the remaining modern Nubian languages, Dongolawi-Andaandi, by El-Shafie El-Guzuuli, thus establishing for the first time a link between the Old Nubian literary heritage and the contemporary colloquial language. The Old Nubian is also accompanied by a revised translation to English and a grammatical analysis.

Nubian languages --- Nubian literature. --- Christian saints --- Grammar. --- Menas, --- Old Nubian --- miracle story --- Christianity --- Dongolawi

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"Undocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the US and the evolution of their meaning. The book explores how Latinx battles for survival are performed in the worlds of faith, religiosity, and the imaginary, and how the socio-political realities of exploitation and racial segregation frame their popular religious expressions. It also tracks the emergence of inter-religious states, transnational ethnic and cultural enclaves unified by faith. The book looks at five vernacular saints that have emerged in Mexico and whose devotions have migrated into the US in the last one hundred years: Jesús Malverde, a popular bandido turned saint caudillo; Santa Olguita, an emerging feminist saint linked to border women's experiences of sexual violence; Juan Soldado, a murder-rapist soldier who is now a patron for undocumented immigrants and the main suspect in the death of an eight-year-old victim known now as Santa Olguita; Toribio Romo, a Catholic priest whose ghost/spirit has been helping people cross the border into the US since the 1990s; and La Santa Muerte, a controversial personification of death who is particularly popular among LGBTQ migrants. Each chapter contextualizes a particular popular saint within broader discourses about the construction of masculinity and the state, the long history of violence against Latina and migrant women, female erasure from history, discrimination against non-normative sexualities, and as US and Mexican investment in the control of religiosity within the discourses of immigration."

Christian hagiography. --- Folk religion. --- Veneration of saints and Christian union. --- Christian saints --- Christian union and veneration of saints --- Christian union --- Religion --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Cult --- Ecumenical aspects

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Dans la littérature hagiographique et dans le culte liturgique, un prestige important entoure un nombre important de saints originaires de l’Aquitaine. Ils sont partis vers le Nord et le Nord-est de la Gaule, ou vers l’Allemagne, pour évangéliser ou pour approfondir la christianisation des populations. À côté des vrais Aquitains historiquement bien attestés, cette origine est attribuée parfois sans fondements à des saints dont certains sont tout à fait fictifs. Si la plupart de ces saints aquitains – réels et inventés – vécurent ou furent censés vivre à la fin de l’Antiquité, et davantage encore à l’époque mérovingienne, leurs Vies furent écrites majoritairement à l’époque carolingienne, mais aussi, sous une forme plus fictionnelle, plus tard entre les Xe et XIIe siècles, dans des contextes politiques et religieux fort divers. Les études rassemblées dans ce volume, issues de deux journées d’études tenues au Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale de Poitiers en 2004 et en 2005, tentent de cerner le sens du qualificatif aquitain dans le discours hagiographique. Quand et pourquoi cette aura aquitaine devient un cliché comparable à celui des saints irlandais ? À quoi correspond la revendication de l’origine aquitaine des fondateurs d’églises, de monastère ? Les dossiers analysés ici suggèrent les premières hypothèses, en ouvrant la voie aux nouvelles recherches en hagiographie comparée.

Christian saints --- Missions --- Saints chrétiens --- History --- Histoire --- Aquitaine (France) --- France, Northern --- France (Nord) --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Christian hagiography --- Christian hagiography. --- Christian saints. --- To 1500 --- France --- To 1500. --- Saints chrétiens --- Church history. --- Aquitaine --- Saints --- Medieval & Renaissance Studies --- Moyen Âge --- pèlerin --- missionnaire