From Sickness and Death to Devotion and Festivity

2022 ◽  
pp. 127-141
Author(s):  
Alejandro Llinares Planells
Keyword(s):  
Patron Saints

In this chapter, the author analyzes the interpretations that were made of some outbreaks of plague in the Kingdom of Valencia, especially those that occurred between 1647 and 1652. Specifically, he focuses on the majority view that perceived this disease as the consequence of God's wrath towards a certain society or people, due to the continuous sins committed by its inhabitants. In this context, the saints were the best allies of a given people to intercede with God to deliver them from the plague. Thus, the author analyzes some examples of these devotions, some of the Valencian patron saints, lawyers against the plague, or festivities that took root in many Valencian towns after that wave of plague in the middle of the Baroque period.

Patron Saints of Early Medieval Italy, AD c. 350–800: History and Hagiography in Ten Biographies. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Nicholas Everett. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016, x, 276 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 362-363
Author(s):  
Scott G. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Gregory The Great ◽  
Patron Saints

Like a modern-day Gregory the Great, Nicholas Everett has assembled a collection of little-known saints’ lives from early medieval Italy: the Life of Gaudentius of Novara; the Life of Barbatus of Benevento; The Sermon of the Notary Coronatus on the Life of Zeno, Bishop and Confessor; The Book Concerning the Apparition of St. Michael on Mount Gargano; the Life of Senzius of Blera; the Passion of Cetheus of Pescara; the Passion of Vigilius of Trent, Bishop and Martyr; the Passion of Apollinaris of Ravenna; the Passion and Life of Eusebius of Vercelli; and the Life of Sirus of Pavia.

The Holy City

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Oldfield
Keyword(s):  
City Of God ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
Patron Saints ◽  
Heavenly City ◽  
The City ◽  
Holy City

This chapter examines praise of cities through the prism of their religious virtues. It does so through the two main, but interrelated, approaches within which the medieval city was linked to the sacred. The first embedded the role of the city within wider Christian narratives about man’s salvation. It was invariably rooted in biblical and other patristic texts (particularly St Augustine’s City of God) and later connected to medieval Christian thinking on Jerusalem, the Heavenly City, and the triumph of Christianity. The second approach drilled down onto specific manifestations of the sacred character of a particular city—its patron saints, its religious buildings and shrines, its religious officials, its place within the universal Church hierarchy, and its pious citizenry.

THE FUTURE OF THE BULGARIAN ACADEMIC PERIODICALS – COMMUNITIES, DEBATES, AND INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Kamen RIKEV
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
International Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
The Future ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Internet Portals ◽  
Patron Saints

The paper discusses several formal aspects of submitting texts to foreign academic journals and publishing houses by Bulgarian authors. It argues that common issues concerning the editing of an author’s contribution include the English translation of a Bulgarian academic institution’s name, the use of quotation marks, the hyphen, en dash and em dash, the usage of glyphs, such as the numero symbol. The article also draws attention to the various transcription styles for Cyrillic texts, as well as the inconsistent forms of patron saints and city names used by Bulgarian institutions. A comparison between the Bulgarian names of six universities, their English translations and forms appearing in Wikipedia illustrates the problem of the often incomprehensible affiliation of a Bulgarian scholar outside the country. The author’s main conclusions are as follows: (1) an urgent need for a uniform spelling of Bulgarian university names in English; (2) based on the information on their official websites, Bulgarian institutions do not have official names in English, or such names cannot be easily traced; (3) clarification of the principles for recording the names of prominent personalities and especially saints, who have long been subject of international research; (4) a need for monitoring the consistent spelling of institution names appearing on the most popular internet portals. Finally, the author suggests 8 English language versions of the name Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

scholarly journals “. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing

Text Matters ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Vincent Pacheco ◽  
Jeremy De Chavez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Filipino American ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Affective Feedback ◽  
Patron Saints ◽  
Body Count

Waged in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed over 20,000 lives according to human rights groups. The Duterte administration’s own count is significantly lower: around 6,000. The huge discrepancy between the government’s official count and that of arguably more impartial organizations about something as concretely material as body count is symptomatic of how disinformation is central to the Duterte administration and how it can sustain the approval of the majority of the Philippine electorate. We suggest that Duterte’s populist politics generates what Boler and Davis (2018) call “affective feedback loops,” which create emotional and informational ecosystems that facilitate smooth algorithmic governance. We turn to Patron Saints of Nothing, a recently published novel by Randy Ribay about a Filipino-American who goes back to the Philippines to uncover the truth behind the death of his cousin. Jay’s journey into the “heart of darkness” as a “hyphenated” individual (Filipino-American) allows him access to locally networked subjectivities but not its affective entanglements. Throughout the novel, he encounters numerous versions of the circumstances of Jun’s demise and the truth remains elusive at the end of the novel. We argue that despite the constant distortion of fact and fiction in the novel, what remains relatively stable or “sticky” throughout the novel are the letters from Jun Reguero that Jay carries with him back to the Philippines. We suggest that these letters can potentially serve as a form of “dissensus” that challenges the constant redistribution of the sensible in the novel.

Patron saints

1859 ◽  
Vol s2-VIII (197) ◽  
pp. 299-299
Author(s):  
G. N.
Keyword(s):  
Patron Saints

Patron Saints of Horses

1949 ◽  
Vol 194 (23) ◽  
pp. 505-505
Author(s):  
P. W. F. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Patron Saints
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