Early modern Catholicism was a "glocal" affair: global in aspiration yet diverse in its local
manifestations. Saint-making was no exception. In the wake of the Council of Trent the Roman
Church developed complex bureaucratic procedures through which the papacy proclaimed the saints
of the Church Universal. But these procedures remained contingent on Catholics' active
veneration of holy men and women before their formal canonization and the faithful's
willingness to reappropriate Roman saints locally once the papacy had reached a verdict. This
volume brings together the work of leading international specialists to show how early modern
sanctity was produced framed and spread: far from being imposed uniformly upon a global
Catholic community by the Roman center saints were the product of constant negotiations
between the global Church and local Catholics living in the four corners of the early modern
world.
