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In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult's merits or the saint's orthodoxy. As she demonstrates, communities that venerated saints increasingly clashed with popes and inquisitors determined to erode any local claims of religious authority. Local and unsanctioned saints were sp
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- Author
- Catholic Church;Peterson, Janine Larmon
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501742354
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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