The Hungarian Association for Hagiographical Studies
and the
Croatian Hagiography Society Hagiotheca
present
the 6th International Hagiotheca Conference
THE SAINTS OF ROME:
DIFFUSION AND RECEPTION
FROM LATE ANTIQUITY
TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Rome, 4-6 October 2017
Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma
Palazzo Falconieri, Via Giulia 1
October 4, Wednesday
12:45-2:30 pm
Visit to the Pagan Cemetery under the Basilica of San Pietro
(optional, early registration required)
3:00-6:00 pm registration
5:00 pm BOOK PRESENTATION
Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8thcenturies). Edited by Marianne Sághy – Edward M. Schoolman. Budapest: CEU Press, 2017.
Presented by Rita Lizzi Testa (University of Perugia) and Trpimir Vedriš (University of Zagreb, Hagiotheca)
Les saints face aux barbares au haut Moyen Age. Réalités et légendes. Edited by Edina Bozoky. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017.
Presented by Hugh Doherty (University of East Anglia)
6:00 pm coffee break
6:30 pm Opening of the conference
H. E. Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, ambassador of Hungary at the Holy See
H. E. Damir Grubiša, ambassador of Croatia
Márk Aurél Érszegi, first secretary of the Embassy of Hungary at the Holy See
István Puskás, director of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
Gábor Klaniczay, Ana Marinković, Marianne Sághy, Trpimir Vedriš
7:00 pm Keynote Lecture
Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli (Pontifical Gregorian University)
La città delle reliquie. La reinvenzione del mito di Roma nello specchio delle fonti letterarie del Medio Evo
chaired by Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University, Budapest)
8:30 pm Reception
October 5 Thursday
First Morning session (9:00-10:30 am)
Patrons of Rome
Agnese Pergola (Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, Rome)
The Promotion of Saints’ Cults through Images in the Roman Catacombs: Private and Ecclesiastical Commissions
Samuel Cohen (Sonoma State University)
Relics and Reconciliation: The Papacy, the Cult of Saints, and the Creation of Sacred Space in Late Antique Rome
András Handl (University of Leuven)
Calixtus martyr et episcopus Romae: (Re)Invention and Afterlife of a Forgotten Saint
Coffee break (10:30-11:00 am)
Second Morning session (11:00– 12:30 pm)
Text and Devotion
Anna Lampadaridi (Labex Resmed IRHT, Paris)
Translating the Passions of Roman Martyrs from Latin into Greek
Dávid Falvay (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Saint Cecilia: a Roman Martyr in 13-14th Century Popular Devotional Literature
Mathilde van Dijk (University of Groningen)
Saint Lawrence and Reform in the Low Countries
Lunch break
(12:30-2:00 pm)
Poster presentations and discussion (2:00-3:30 pm)
David Franz Hobelleitner (University of Graz)
Saint Clement of Rome – A Saint and His City?
Ines Ivić (Central European University, Budapest)
Jerome as a Roman Saint: The Translation of His Relics and the Construction of His Cult in Santa Maria Maggiore
Iliana Kandzha (Central European University, Budapest)
Appropriating Saint Lawrence in the Imperial Hagiography and Iconography of Saint Henry II
Eszter Konrád (Central European University, Budapest)
The Bride of Christ Goes to the Urbs: Saint Catherine of Siena and Rome in Late Medieval Hungarian Codices
Lilla Mátyók-Engel (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Sienese Success in Rome. A Procession Crucifixus and a Relic Box as Agents in the Recognition of the Stigmatization of Saint Catherine of Siena
Nina Niedermeier (Ludwig-Maximilians University, München)
Localizing Miracles: Local Spanish Cults and Ignatius of Loyola’s Career as «santo di Roma»
Lena Terlisten (Philipps University, Marburg)
Roman Catacomb saints in Milan
Dorottya Uhrin (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Italian Impacts in the Cult of Saint Barbara in Hungary?
Coffee break (3:30-4:00 pm)
Afternoon session (4:00-6:00 pm)
Roman Saints Abroad: Early Medieval I
Marianne Sághy (Central European University and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
The Cult of Saint Peter and Paul from Pannonia to Hungary
Edward M. Schoolman (University of Nevada, Reno)
Translating Saints from Rome to Romagna: Building Medieval Ravenna’s Hagiographic Landscape
Edina Bozóky (University of Poitiers)
The Relationship of Local Apostolic Saints with Saint Peter and Saint Clement
Hugh Doherty (University of East Anglia)
The Saints of Rome in Anglo-Norman England
Coffee break (6:00-6:30 pm)
6:30 pm: Keynote Lecture
Roberto Rusconi(AISSCA)
«Romanus pontifex indubitanter efficitur sanctus»: Between (Supposed) Martyrdom and (Failed) Canonization Process
chaired by Francesco Scorza Barcellona (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” – AISSCA)
October 6 Friday
First Morning session (9:00-10:30 am)
Roman Saints Abroad: Early Medieval II
Eric Devos (Archive and the heritage council, Ronse)
Tracing the Itinerary of Saint Hermes: Iconography as an Indicator of the Whereabouts of a Roman Martyr
Diana Atanassova (University of Sofia “Saint Clement of Ohrid”)
The Cult of Saint Clement of Rome in Medieval Bulgaria
Ana Marinković – Trpimir Vedriš (University of Zagreb, Hagiotheca)
Missing Link: The Roman Layer of Early Medieval East-Adriatic sanctorale
Coffee break (10:30-11:00 am)
Second Morning session (11:00am –1:00pm)
Roman Saints in Central Europe
Béla Zsolt Szakács (Pázmány Péter Catholic University and CEU, Budapest)
Roman Saints in the Hungarian Angevin Court
Dobrosława Horzela (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Cracow)
Between Heresy and Sanctity: Visual Strategies in the Representation of the Life of Saint Alexis
Josipa Alviž (University of Zagreb)
Saint Felix of Cantalice: the “Saint of the Roman Streets“ in Central Europe
Marek Walczak (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Art History)
Between the Eternal City and Cracow. Roman Aspects of the Cult of Saint Hyacinth of Poland OP (d. 1257)
Lunch break (1:00-2:30 pm)
Afternoon session (2:30-3:30pm)
Foreign Saints and Miracles in Rome
Maria H. Oen (Stockholm University)
Rome and the Sanctity of Brigitta
Jenni Kuuliala (University of Tampere)
Community and Veneration in Late Medieval and Early Modern Roman Miracles
Coffee break (3:30-4:00 pm)
Second Afternoon session (4:00 pm- 6 pm)
Roman Saints in the Early Modern World
Jasenka Gudelj (University of Zagreb)
Slavic Apostles Go to Rome: The Romanization of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in the Church of San Girolamo degli Schiavoni
Isabel Ruiz Garnelo (University of Valencia)
Roman Saints in Valencia? About the Spiritual Legacy of the Borja Family
Nicolette S. Trahoulia (Deree College, The American College of Greece)
Catherine of Siena in Viceregal Latin American Art
Presentation of the conference project “Saints And Sanctity in the Ibero-American Baroque” (September 2018, Rome) by Fernando Quiles, Paolo Broggio, Jaime García Bernal
Coffee break (6pm-6:00 pm)
6:30 pm: Concluding Remarks by Gábor Klaniczay
“Catholic Sanctity and Roman Universalism”