Promoting the Saints: Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period; Essays in Honor of Gábor Klaniczay for his 60th Birthday. (original) (raw)

R. MARTORELLI (2021), Saints, Cults, Sanctuaries, and Monasteries

A. Metcalfe, H.Fernández-Aceves, and M. Muresu eds., The Making of Medieval Sardinia (The Medieval Mediterranean, 128), Leiden-Boston: Brill, pp. 88-125. , 2021

Continuity of the Sacral and Actuality of the Cult on the Cemetery of St. Ivo in Livno

SERTA INSTITUTI ARCHAEOLOGICA KNJIGA VOLUME 10, 2018

The authors of this paper aim at drawing attention, through archaeological and ethnographic context, to the sacral continuity of the archaeological site on the locality of St. Ivo in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from ancient to modern times, as well as the actuality of reverence of the cult of St. John the Baptist through various aspects of belief and folkways among the inhabitants of the Livno area. The cult of St. Ivo on this locality dates back to the Late Middle Ages, evident from the remains of the Franciscan monastery, which was, according to written sources, dedicated to St. John the Baptist; whereas the pilgrimatic procession on the site, whose toponym preserved the memory of the cult, reflects the actuality of the cult in this day and age. Former ethnological research generally regarded St. John as a substitute for pagan gods, a topic briefly addressed in this paper as well. Special reference is made to the participation of the faithful of other religions, especially Muslims, in folkways relating to the worship of St. John the Baptist. Key words: Livno, Cemetery of St. Ivo, monastery, cult continuity, St. John the Baptist, St. Ivo, pilgrimage, folkways.

Cult of the Saint in the Balkans

Gerda Dalipaj, Saint"s day celebrations and animal sacrifice in the Shpati region of Albania: Reflections of local social structure and identities (81-89) Raĉko Popov, Paraskeva and her "sisters": Saintly personification of women"s rest days and other themes (90-98) Manolis Varvounis, The cult of saints in Greek traditional culture (99-108) Ljupĉo Risteski, The concept and role of saints in Macedonian popular religion (109-127) Biljana Sikimić, Saints who wind guts (128-161) Mirjam Mencej, Saints as the wolves" shepherd (162-184) Mirjana Detelić, Two case studies of the saints in the "twilight zone" of oral literature: Petka and Sisin (185-204)

Contemporary Ecumenical Challenges of Historically Charged Liturgical Cult: The Services for Josafat Kuntsevych, Afanasiy Filippovych, and Andrzej Bobola

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu, 2020

The seventeenth century was a period of political and religious turmoil in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. The confessional conflicts produced martyrs whose cults consolidated the confessional boundaries of the Roman Catholic, the Orthodox, and the Greek Catholic Church. In my article, I compare three such saints: Josafat Kuntsevych (1580-1623, Greek Catholic), Afanasiy Filippovych (c. 1595–1648, Orthodox), and Andrzej Bobola (1591-1657, Roman Catholic), who were martyred in the hands of their Christian neighbours. For material, I use the hymnographical services composed for the saints. I argue that, in quest of genuine ecumenism, certain content in these services, such as exclusive concepts of the true faith and church unity, may actually induce rather than prevent hostility between the Churches.