Essays on Canonization

1. Why is the answer to the question what is an Author NOT so simple and self-evident as saying that authors are the people that we study in school? (10 [para. 2, 3]) The main problem that arises when one says that authors are people that we study in school is that many authors are simply not studied in school. In fact, one could study one’s whole college career, and still not even make a dent in the number of authors who have authored cultural materials, and moreover, many authors are not English-speaking. According to Nealon & Giroux, “There ...

Worship of numerous sacred and martyrs started getting into Christianity along with introduction of icons. Similarly to paganism, everyone of sacred turned into the patron of some profession or craft, like pagan gods did. Moreover, even memorable days of the majority of sacred coincide with the dates of celebrations in honor of pagan gods and goddesses. The first certificates on worship are found in the middle of the III century when christians in Rome started visiting places of burial of apostles Peter and Paul. Thus, pagan honoring of the well-known people, in Christianity was replaced with honoring of ...

Religious Studies - Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

Introduction The canonization by the Catholic Church in 2004 of Gianna Beretta Molla as a patron saint of mothers, physicians, and preborn children is a remarkable story of human faith in her religious convictions as both an ethical physician and as a follower of the teachings of God through Jesus Christ his Son. Phenomenal events are common in the worlds of the Old and New Testament and the lives of the saints marked by mystical intervention. In our era, the Eternal Father selects ordinary people from our midst to use as His instrument to spread the gospel. He calling reveals ...

The idea of representation has long been a difficult one in the history of human culture. Representation involves two separate actions: seeing and creating. Both of these contain complex semiotic processes that must occur within the mind, which means that the result of representation can vary significantly from one person to the next, or even from one point in time to another for the same person. In the case of sculpture, the process of seeing takes on one of two forms: actual visual interplay with a subject or imaginary conception of a subject. Even if the subject is already real and stands ...

Kateri Tekakwitha is the first ever Native American Saint. She is often referred to as the ‘Lily of the Mohawks’. The life story of Kateri is based on bibliographies prepared after her death by two Catholic fathers Cholenec and Chauchetiere. These priests belonged to the mission of Saint-Francois-Xavier. The Jesuit mission started its activities in French territories in North America particularly in Quebec and Upper State New York in the 1660s. The Jesuit mission though religious in nature was politically motivated because France wanted to expand her influence on other parts of the world. The Jesuit Fathers mainly targeted ...

One of the things, among others, that the poets John Donne (1572–1631) and John Milton (1608–1674) have in common is their poetic style. John Donne and John Milton developed a poetic style in which they reasonably and often paradoxically approached philosophical and spiritual subjects. Although John Donne and John Milton have written fairly distinct poems, but their constructions of devotion and godly poetics tend to be quite similar. Although most of their poetic works are centered on their personal relationship with spirituality, but the sexual realism in their poetries cannot be ignored or overlooked. They use rhythms in ...