Guiderdoni, Agnès
[UCL]
The French bishop Francis de Sales (1567–1622) was beatified in 1661 and canonized in 1666. These events were of major importance for the Visitation order which he had founded with Jane de Chantal, and which celebrated both events with pomp and splendor across the whole country. These festivities were designed by the Visitandines, their priests, but also by renowned “specialists” of the spectacle, such as Claude-François Menestrier for the celebration in Grenoble. From the texts of descriptions and relations that have been kept about these festivities, I will seek to identify the various patterns of representation, and how they are structured by and connected to the writings of Francis de Sales, in a performative rhetoric aimed at establishing the identity and the legitimacy of the new saint.
Bibliographic reference |
Guiderdoni, Agnès. Traveling sanctity: celebrating Francis de Sales's canonisation.Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Washington, du 22/03/2012 au 24/03/2012). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128941 |