Fantastic Saints and where to find them: Why does Sanctity matter? Preface to Profiling Saints / Elisa Frei, Eleonora Rai
Sanctity and modernity: Opposition or agreement? An introduction to Profiling Saints / Franco Motta
Section 1 Through the Saints: Undersanding the Church across the Centuries
Temptation, torture, and truth. Philip Neri and reforming Catholic Rome / Thomas Santa Maria
What about the Saints of the French Revolution? Canonization and Beatification after 1789 / Stefan Samerski
Modern Saints in the Roman Missal. An exploration of the Proprium de Sanctis / Joris Geldhof
Section 2 Visualizing Sanctity and the Sacred: Images and Promotion
Promoting Sanctity by the means of artworks. The GLOBECOSAL Project / Raphaèle Preisinger, Hannah Joy Friedman, Jonathan E. Greenwood, Wei Jiang, Lucia Querejazu Escobari
Imagining the world through St Francis Xavier imagery. A case study in Quito / Rachel Miler
From book to image. Molanus and the Netherlandish Holy Images / Timara Dominici, Antonio Gerace
Section 3 Hagiographical Representations: The Jesuits
Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), the Louvain Lectures, and economic though. Image and impact of a Saint viewed from an underestimated perspective / Shiri Roelofs
"Or voi conoscete qual sarà stata la santità del Saverio". The Panegyric by Eriprando Maria Giuliari (1728-1805) / Carla Pelliccia
Section 4 Martyrs of Japan: Models, Emotions, and the Causes for Beatification and Canonization
From 'Martyrs of Japan" oto 'Japanese Martyrs' models of sanctity and diversity in the canonization causes for martyrs of Japan / Carla Tronu Montané
Emotional practices of Catholic Martyrdom in Early Modern Japan / Linda Zampol D'Ortia
Profiling the Japanese Martyrs. The beatification process of the twenty-six martyrs of Nagasaki (1597-1627)
Section 5 Vocation to Holiness: Three Case Studies from Early Modern Europe
Lucia Broccadelli da Narni in Ferrara. The short season of a living saint, the changing memories of the biographers / Beatrice Saletti
Holiness and madness in Early Modern Florence / Lucio Biasiori
Like a phoenix into the ashes. Christological and Jesuit profile of Uniate Martyrdom in Andrzj Miodzianowski's emblematic Viat (1675) of Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580-1623)
Sanctity in a global world. Continuit and discontinuity in the Early Modern Age. Conclusions to Profiling Saints.