Lena Terlisten: Book on reliquary strategies in Borromeo Milan

Lena Terlisten, a student of Ingo Herklotz (Marburg), has published, as 73rd supplement of the Roman Quarterly, her dissertation on "Reliquary strategies in Borromeo Milan. The translations of Giovanni Giacomo Castoldi (1595-1618)".

The Europe-wide distribution of so-called catacomb saints was one of the Roman Church's successful confessionalisation measures from the end of the 16th century onwards. But what happened when Roman relics encountered a self-confident local church that had cultivated its own traditions and asserted its independence from Rome?

This book sheds light on how the Milanese Archbishop Federico Borromeo (offic. 1595-1631) knew how to instrumentalise relics from Rome and Cologne not only to glorify Milan, but also for the canonisation of his cousin and predecessor in office, Carlo Borromeo (1560-1584).

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