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Contested Canonizations

The Last Medieval Saints, 1482-1523
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Pope John Paul II famously canonised more saints than all his predecessors combined. Several of these candidates were controversial. To this day there remain holy men and women "on the books" of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints whose canonisation would provoke considerable debate. This was no less true during the period covered ......
"This is an erudite study; Finucane makes thorough and careful use of his sources and of other scholarship."--John W. Coakley, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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