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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2019
The creation of new saints often has a political edge; the Catholic Church molds saints’ lives to fit its needs, and individual popes have particular priorities in saint-making. In the early modern Church, this was particularly important after the Council of Trent. The Tridentine decrees (1563) instructed bishops to reform the Church but provided few practical suggestions for how to do this. One solution was to hold up exemplary post-Tridentine bishops as models through beatification and canonization. Historians have noted the importance of model bishops but have not fully considered the process of creating them and its implication for the histories of Catholic Reform and of canonization. The case of Cardinal-Bishop Gregorio Barbarigo of Padua (bp. 1664–1697) tells a complicated and interesting story about the intersection of Catholic Reform and canonization. Barbarigo was beatified in 1761 during the Catholic Enlightenment and was finally canonized in 1960, on the eve of the Second Vatican Council. Examining the construction of his image from 1699–1960, this article argues that the Catholic Church in both the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries molded Barbarigo into the model bishop needed at those particular times, in response to the issues facing contemporary bishops and clergy.
I would like to thank Dr. Kristi Bain, Dr. Ross Carroll, and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on drafts of this article.
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16 Barna, “The Central Celebration for the Canonization of Margaret of Hungary in January 1944,” 55.
17 Pius XI beatified four hundred ninety-nine people and canonized thirty-four. John Paul II beatified one thousand three hundred twenty-nine and canonized four hundred eighty-three.
18 Chaline, “La spiritualité de Pie XI”; and Ciciliot, “La strategia canonizzatrice di Pio XI.”
19 Morelli, “Exemples de vie chrétienne”; and Zuccarello, “Le canonizzazioni e beatificazioni di Giovanni Paolo II.”
20 See Serena, Sebastiano, S. Gregorio Barbarigo e la vita spirituale e culturale nel suo seminario di Padova, vol. 2, 2 vols. (Padua: Antenore, 1963)Google Scholar.
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24 See Barbarigo, Gregorio, Governare la diocesi nei conflitti: lettere di Gregorio Barbarigo ai familiari, 1671–1676, ed. Magni, Catia, vol. 7, 9 vols., San Gregorio Barbarigo - Fonti e ricerche (Padua: Istituto per la storia ecclesiastica padovana, 2011)Google Scholar.
25 Giuseppe Musocco, Delle azioni e virtù di Gregorio Barbarigo cardinal e vescovo di Padova, Biblioteca Civica di Padova, M.S. BP 609, fol. 260r-v: “Oimé, Oimé, quanto terrore! . . . non so che sarà di me. O quanti peccati, quanti peccati sono sopra di me?… Quel strettissimo conto!”
26 Atti della canonizzazione di S. Gregorio Barbarigo, Bollettino diocesano di Padova (Padua: Tipografia Antoniana, 1960), 466.
27 Barbarigo was beatified sixty-four years after his death, and then it took another one hundred ninety-nine years for him to be canonized (total of two hundred sixty-three years from death to canonization). Most cases would not survive this long, particularly when we take into consideration Barbarigo's status as a secular cleric.
28 I have excluded martyrs from this list, in an effort to find cases more comparable with Barbarigo's. A list of all saints canonized between 1588 and 1999 is found in the appendix of Duffin, Jacalyn, Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 198–207CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
29 Six of the laypeople were royals or nobles, two were indigenous, one was a prominent mystic, and four were poor people. Of the secular clergy, only three were members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy (Barbarigo, Juan de Ribera, and François de Laval, all bishops).
30 Time from beatification to canonization for laypeople and secular clergy was under a century for all cases except those of Nicholas de Flue, a Swiss mystic beatified in 1669 and canonized in 1947; Kinga, a Hungarian princess beatified in 1690 and canonized in 1999; Jan Sarkander, a Silesian priest beatified in 1860 and canonized in 1995; Juan de Ribera, a Spanish archbishop beatified in 1796 and canonized in 1960; and Gregorio Barbarigo.
31 Ehlers, Between Christians and Moriscos, 152–53; Angelo Roncalli, “Discurso de su santidad Juan XXIII a los peregrinos españoles con motivo de la canonización del Beato Juan de Ribera” (Libreria editrice vaticana, June 12, 1960), http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/es/speeches/1960; and Angelo Roncalli, “Canonización del Beato Juan de Ribera. Homilía de su santidad Juan XXIII” (Libreria editrice vaticana, June 12, 1960), http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/es/homilies/1960.
32 Ehlers, Between Christians and Moriscos, 152–153.
33 Ott, Michael, “Pope Urban VIII,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 15 (New York: Robert Appleton, 1912)Google Scholar, newadvent.org. John Paul II changed the process in 1983, making it much easier to create new saints (and allowing him to create more saints than any pope before him). Bennett, “Strategic Canonisation: Sanctity, Popular Culture and the Catholic Church,” 443.
34 The entire process is described in great detail by Prospero Lambertini, who was the promoter of the faith for the Congregation of Rites until becoming Pope Benedict XIV in 1740. Prospero (Pope Benedict XIV) Lambertini, B. X., De servorum Dei beatificatione et beatorum canonizatione (Vatican City: Libreria editrice vaticana, 2010)Google Scholar.
35 Requirements are different for martyrs, because their heroic virtue is established by their willingness to die for the faith and they are not required to perform miracles. Other Servants of God must have surpassed ordinary faithful in terms of faith, hope, charity, fortitude, justice, prudence, and temperance; other virtues may be added, and members of religious orders are also expected to be exemplary in their fidelity to their vows. Delooz, “Towards a Sociological Study of Canonized Sainthood in the Catholic Church,” 203.
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37 The beatification and canonization processes are explored in detail in Giovannucci, Pierluigi, Il processo di canonizzazione del Card. Gregorio Barbarigo (Rome: Herder, 2001), 60Google Scholar. The primary archival sources for the beatification process are ACVP, Processo Barbarigo, bb. 1–12; and Archivio Segreto Vaticano (henceforth ASV), Congregazione dei Riti, Processus, bb. 3458–3464, 3466–3480. The canonization trial, in ASV, Congregazione dei Riti, Processus, b. 5404, is not available as access is denied to all Vatican archival documents produced since 1939.
38 Giovannucci, Il processo di canonizzazione, 198. Giovannucci provides a table detailing the percentage of questions dedicated to each virtue.
39 ACVP, Inquisitiones, b. 84, fols. 340v-376r; b. 87 (n.p.); Visitationes, b. 55, fols. 312–317; b. 60, fols. 409r–413r.
40 ACVP, Processo Barbarigo, b. 9, fol. 1697r: “L'ho udito a correggere uno di quei Parochi et era il Pievano di S. Illaria D. Carlo Rodriguez, col tal soavità e con espressioni si benigne che mi provocò alle lagrime, unitamente cogl'astanti, e pur il Re[verend]o se ne stava in piedi con modo assai superbo così che moveva lo sdegno nelli stessi circostanti, et il Servo di Dio continuò sempre con l'istessa dolcezza a rimproverarli li suoi difetti acciò li emendassi, finalmente per adempire alle parti della sua Giustitia dovette sospenderlo, se bene non molto doppo per essersi quello humiliato lo rimise al beneficio. Ma perseverando è ritornato di nuovo alle trasgressioni fù constretto il Servo di Dio a servirsi del rigore castigandolo con la Carcere per qualche tempo.”
41 ACVP, Processo Barbarigo, b. 6, fol. 456r: “Dicendo quando un sacerdote era processato perdeva la fama, il concetto, e la stima e che egli non era più instato di ricuperarla, e perciò usava tutto il potere nel fare che secretamente si levassero dal male.”
42 Musocco, Delle azioni e virtù di Gregorio Barbarigo cardinal e vescovo di Padova, fol. 103v: “Non poteva nell'Ecclesiastici tollerare non che la colpa, ma neppure il sospetto della colpa.”
43 On the testimonies, found in ASV, Congregazione dei Riti, bb. 3471–3475, see Giovannucci, Il processo di canonizzazione, 238–317.
44 ACVP, Processo Barbarigo, b. 6, fol. 768r: “Haveva li calzoni tutti laceri, e tanto vecchi che io, pover curato di Oliero come ero in quel tempo, mi sarei vergognato di portarli.”
45 ACVP, Processo Barbarigo, b. 9, fol. 1205v: “Habiti particolarmente molto laceri e rattopati, inhabili a guardarlo dal freddo.”
46 ACVP, Processo Barbarigo, b. 9, fol. 1225r.
47 Of the three hundred thirteen witnesses, one hundred twenty-six were laypeople, one hundred eighty-seven were clergy. For a more detailed breakdown of the sex and status of witnesses, see Giovannucci, Il processo di canonizzazione, 205, 210.
48 “Animadversiones,” in Sacra Rituum Congregatione Eminentissimo, & Reverendissimo D. Card. Zondadario Veneta, seu Patavina Beatificationis, & Canonizationis ven. Servi Dei Gregorii card. Barbadici Episcopi olim Bergomensis, postea Patavini, Positio Super dubio An sit Signanda Commissio Introductionis Causae (henceforth Positio 1723) (Rome: Typis Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae, 1723), 2.
49 “Animadversiones,” in Positio 1723, 1–2. The text the promoters originally sent was Barbarigo, Gregorio, Lettere pastorali, editti, e decreti publicati in diversi tempi dall'eminentissimo e reverendissimo Sig. Gregorio Barbarigo Vescovo di Padova (Padua: Seminario di Padova, 1690)Google Scholar. This text is a collection of pastoral letters, edicts, and decrees sent to priests and sermons delivered at synods. On the importance of the prospective saint's writings, see Delooz, “Towards a Sociological Study of Canonized Sainthood in the Catholic Church,” 202.
50 “Animadversiones,” in Positio 1723, 2–4.
51 Ibid., 4.
52 Ibid., 2–3.
53 Ibid., 6–7, and “Responsio facti et iuris ad animadversiones,” in Positio 1723, 13.
54 Ibid., 14. Jean-Michel Sallmann has also noted that this was a common part of many saints’ stories; true saints would always resist, though they might appear to be “in agony fight[ing] against the demons to find peace.” Sallmann, Jean-Michel, Santi barocchi: modelli di santità, pratiche devozionali e comportamenti religiosi nel regno di Napoli dal 1540 al 1750 (Lecce: Argo, 1996), 371Google Scholar. See also Dominique-Marie Dauzet, “Le récit de la «mort sainte» dans les biographies religieuses du XIXe–XXe siècle. Essai d'hagiographie contemporaine,” Analecta Bollandiana 123, no. 1 (2005): 133–63.
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58 Ibid., 22.
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60 ASV, Congregazione dei Riti, Processus, b. 3476, fol. 166v.
61 Ibid., fol. 168r.
62 Ibid., fols. 168v–169r.
63 She did not declare her natal faith, and other witnesses alternately identified her as converting from Islam or Judaism.
64 ASV, Congregazione dei Riti, Processus, b. 3477, fol. 1206v–1214r.
65 ASV, Congregazione dei Riti, Processus, b. 3478, fols. 149r–150r. Barbarigo's methods of conversion are quite similar to those followed elsewhere in the Church (provide for the convert's temporal needs, education, and continuing support after conversion), though in larger cities this role was overseen by catechumen houses. See Mazur, Peter, Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy (New York: Routledge, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Kalak, Matteo Al and Pavan, Ilaria, Un'altra fede. Le case dei catecumeni nei territori estensi (1538–1938) (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013)Google Scholar. On Barbarigo's conversions, see Michele Cassese, “Gregorio Barbarigo e il rapporto con ebrei e non cattolici,” in Gregorio Barbarigo: patrizio veneto, vescovo, e cardinale nella tarda Controriforma (1625–1697), ed. Liliana Billanovich and Pierantonio Gios, vol. 3/2, 9 vols., San Gregorio Barbarigo—Fonti e ricerche (Padua: Istituto per la storia ecclesiastica padovana, 1999), 1023–56.
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68 Ibid., 98, 124–28.
69 Ibid., 210–11, 222.
70 ASV, Congregazione dei Riti, Processus, b. 3476, fols. 294r–340v.
71 As Jacalyn Duffin has noted, medical miracles far outnumber other miracles in beatification and canonization trials from the sixteenth–twentieth centuries. The standards for accepting these miracles is strict: medical professionals must testify that the cure could not have been natural, either because it was too rapid or because the illness or injury had been judged fatal. See Duffin, Medical Miracles.
72 ASV, Congregazione dei Riti, Processus, b. 3476, fol. 931r.
73 Ibid., fols. 902v–903r: “La mattina susseguente la ritrovassimo sana, allegra, e con buon colorito.”
74 Ibid., fol. 903r: “Raccontava che la notte stessa gli era comparso in visione il Venerabile Signor Cardinale Barbarigo, in compagnia della Beatissima Vergine . . . e gli disse se aveva desiderio della sua salute, e rispondendogli di si con buona fede, gli diede la sua benedizione.”
75 Ibid., fol. 1124v.
76 “Animadversiones,” in Sacra Rituum Congregatione Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Domino Cardinali Zondadario Veneta, seu Patavina Beatificationis, & Canonizationis ven. Servi Dei Gregorii cardinalis Barbadici Episcopi olim Bergomensis, & deinde Patavini. Positio super dubio An constet de validitate Processuum tam Ordinaria, quam Apostolica Auctoritate constructorum, Testes sin rite et recte examinati, et Iura legitime compulsata (henceforth Positio 1734) (Rome: Typis Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae, 1734), 2.
77 “Responsio ad animadversiones,” in Positio 1734, 2. In the end, seven testimonies from Bergamo were excluded but the rest were accepted. Giovannucci, Il processo di canonizzazione, 508.
78 Ibid., 509.
79 Ibid., 510.
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81 “Animadversiones,” in Positio 1746, 23.
82 Giovannucci, Il processo di canonizzazione, 516.
83 Ibid., 545.
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85 “Animadversiones,” in Positio 1756, 4.
86 In the Twenty-Third Session, Chapter I, the decrees mandate that justifiable absences from one's territory must be approved by the pope (or a metropolitan or suffragan bishop, if necessary), suggesting that residency requirements were by papal mandate, but this is not clearly stated. Schroeder, Canons and Decrees, 167.
87 “Responsio ad animadversione additionales,” in Positio 1756, 2–12.
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89 Twenty-Fourth Session, Reform, Chapter XVII. Schroeder, Canons and Decrees, 209.
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114 Ibid., 5: “Mandarne subito dettagliata narrazione in iscritto a questa Curia, corroborata dalle testimonianze e prove necessarie.”
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119 Ibid., 146–7: “Io rimasi maravigliato, perché non riscontrei in lui che qualche residuo del male.”
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