Notes and Comments
- Notes and Comments
Causes of Saints
At a consistory held on April 20, 2017, Pope Francis obtained the consent of the cardinals for the canonization of sibling shepherds Francisco de Jesus Marto (1908–19) and Jacinta de Jesus Marto (1910–20) in a ceremony that took place in Fatima on May 13, 2017. Consent was also given for the canonizations on October 15, 2017, of the Brazilian priests Andrea Soveral (1572–1645) and Ambrogio Francesco Ferro, the layman Mateus Moreira, and twenty-seven companions massacred for the faith in 1645 by Dutch and indigenous Calvinists; of the converted "Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala," Cristóbal (1514/15–27), killed for his faith by his pagan father, and Antonio and Juan (both 1516/17–29), killed for desecrating pagan idols; of the Capuchin priest Angelo Acri (born Luca Falcone, 1669–1739), famous for preaching peace in southern Italy; and of the Spanish Piarist priest Faustino Míguez de González (1831–1925), who founded the Calasanctius Institute of the Daughter of the Divine Shepherdess for the education of women.
On May 4, 2017, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate decrees acknowledging miracles attributed to these venerable servants of God: the American Francis Solano (baptized Bernard) Casey, O.F.M. Cap. (1870–1957); Mother Mary of the Immaculate Conception (born Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, 1789–1828), foundress of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate; the German Clara Fey (1815–94), foundress of the Institute of the Sisters of the Poor Jesus; and the Argentine Catalina de Maria (born Josefa Saturnina Rodriguez, 1823–96), foundress of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. He also acknowledged the martyrdom of Luciano Botovasoa, lay member of the Third Order of St. Francis, who was killed in hatred of the faith in Vohipeno, Madagascar, on April 17, 1947. In addition, the pope recognized the heroic virtues of Cardinal Elia dalla Costa (1872–1961), archbishop of Florence; Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân (1928–2002), the coadjutor archbishop of Saigon, who was imprisoned by the Communists for thirteen years, eight of which he spent in solitary confinement; Giovanna Meneghini (1868–1918), foundress of the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary; Vincenzina Cusmano (1826–94), first Superior General of the Congregation of the Servant Sisters of the Poor; Alessandro Nottegar (1943–86), lay founder of the Regina Pacis Community; Edvige Carboni (1880–1952), a lay member of the Third Order of St. Francis, mystic, and stigmatic; and Maria Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri y Fernández de Heredia (1916–75), lay member of Opus Dei and of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross. [End Page 379]
Paleography
The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago, in collaboration with St. Louis University and the University of Toronto, have launched a website dedicated to French Renaissance paleography and plan to develop a similar one for Italian paleography. To help develop and improve these websites, please contact paleography@newberry.org.
With the collaboration of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and the University of Notre Dame Rome Gateway, the American Academy in Rome is offering a course in Latin paleography and codicology taught by Dr. David T. Gura, January 8–19, 2018. The application deadline is May 30, 2017. For more information, please visit http://aarome.org/apply/winter-programs/paleography-codicology or contact the program director at latin.paleography@aarome.org.
Conferences
On March 22–25, 2017, the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum e.V., the Arbeitsberich mittlere und neuere Kirchengeschichte der Universität Freiburg, and the Katholische Akademie der Erzdiözese Freiburg sponsored a conference "Glaube(n) im Disput: Altgläubige Kontroversisten des Reformationszeitalters in neuerer Forschung" at the Katholische Akademie in Freiburg im Breisgau. Over twenty scholars from Germany, Switzerland, and the United States presented papers under the headings: "Klärungen zum Phänomen der 'controversia'," "Kontexte der Kontroverstheologie," "Erste Konturierungen," and "Transformationen." For more information, visit www.katholische-akademiefreiburg.de.
On May 4–5, 2017, a consortium of organizations, mostly in Bologna, sponsored a conference held at the Palazzo d...
