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  • 4 - The Virgin Mary

  • from Part I - Models of Sanctity
  • Edited by Jan Machielsen, Cardiff University, Emily Michelson, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Katrina B. Olds, University of San Francisco
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity
    Published online:
    12 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 72-89

  • Summary

    The cult of the Virgin Mary went global during the early modern period, as Catholics embraced her with renewed fervor in the wake of Protestant attacks. Using one of Mary’s most famous advocations as a case study, this chapter investigates the origins, spread, and reinvention of the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Extremadura, Mexico, and in the Philippines, demonstrating both the causes and limitations of her success across different parts of the Spanish empire.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Jan Machielsen, Cardiff University, Emily Michelson, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Katrina B. Olds, University of San Francisco
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity
    Published online:
    12 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    When Catholicism went global during the early modern period, it did so through the practices, idioms, and procedures of sanctity, in an uneven, messy, embodied process that often escaped control. Well beyond the papacy’s formal processes of beatification and canonization, the worldwide early modern Catholic community was united by belief in the continued immanence of the sacred and the supernatural in everyday life, especially through the cult of saints. The quest for and defense of sanctity defined early modern Catholicism. Every aspect of its pursuit also refuted the new Protestant dogmas of sola fide, sola Scriptura, and sola gratia. This Companion therefore offers sanctity as a new prism through which to envision the Catholic Church in the early modern era.

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