Wednesday, 21.06.2023
18.00–18.15 Registration and Welcoming
18.15–19.15 Keynote: Simon Ditchfield (York), Lex super omnia? The role of literary texts in saint-making in the early modern age

Thursday, 22.06.2023
9.00–9.15 Registration
9.15–9.30 Opening remarks

I. Spinoff? Hagiographical concepts in epic poetry
Chair: Florian Schaffenrath
9.30–10.00 Gorana Stepanić (Pula), The miraculous life of Virgin Mary: Caietani Vicich "Libri XII Jesseidos" (1700)
10.00–10.30 Elena Dahlberg (Uppsala), Almost a saint? Ex-queen Christina as a paragon of spirituality in Michele Cappellari’s "Christinais" (1699/1700)

10.30–11.00 Coffee break

II. Hagiographical concepts in Jesuit literature 1
Chair: Florian Schaffenrath
11.00–11.30 Yasmin Haskell (Princeton/Perth), Graduating saints: student poetry on Jesuit saints from Francis Xavier to John Regis
11.30–12.00 Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė (Vilnius), Writing about the saints in Jesuit educational context: Meditatio rhetorica (1695) from Kražiai College and some other examples
12.00–12.30 Paul Gwynne (Rome), "Capta Victrix": exempla virtutis for Jesuit seminarians?

12.30–15.00 Lunch break

III. (Re-)Contextualizing established cults
Chair: Patryk Ryczkowski
15.00–15.30 Liliya Berezhnaya (Münster/Vienna), Shaping the cult of St Barbara in early modern Ruthenian lands: interconfessional perspectives
15.30–16.00 Kerstin S. Jobst (Vienna), Jozafat Kuncevyč: Zur Initialisierung eines Kultes im habsburgischen Galizien

16.00–16.30 Coffee break

IV. Hagiographical concepts in Jesuit literature 2
Chair: Mariia Hrynevych
16.30–17.00 Carlota Miranda Urbano (Coimbra), “If the grain of wheat does not die”: epic poetry and the mystery of martyrdom (B. Pereira, "Paciecidos libri", Coimbra 1640)
17.00–17.45 Alena Bočková, Kateřina Bobková-Valentová, Magdaléna Jacková (Prague), A good example as a path to saint-making in a Jesuit school drama (Nepomucenus et alii)

Friday, 23.06.2023
V. On the way to sanctity (through the texts)
Chair: Wolfgang Kofler
9.30–10.00 Michał Czerenkiewicz (Cracow), Strategies of exaltation of the late mediaeval monk Isaias Boner in 17th century Latin literature
10.00–10.30 Stefan Samerski (Munich), Problematische Schriftlichkeit. Die Seligsprechung von Jeanne Françoise de Chantal (1751)

10.30–11.00 Coffee break

VI. (Re-)Shaping the saint and his legend
Chair: Wolfgang Kofler
11.00–11.30 Mintautas Čiurinskas (Vilnius), The visit of Zaccaria Ferreri to Vilnius (1520–1521): literary activity of the papal legate in the canonization process of St. Casimir
11.30–12.00 (online) Ralf Georg Czapla (Heidelberg), Ein Vogelflüsterer als Heiliger und Held. Franz von Assisi und sein dialogisches Verhältnis zur Natur im Spiegel der neulateinischen Epik Italiens
12.00–12.30 Closing remarks