On March 11 and 12, Regis College hosts an online conference “Imaging Jesuit Sanctity: A conference engaging with the 400th anniversary the canonization of the first Jesuit saints.” The event is co-organized by Thomas Worcester, SJ, and Alison Fleming
Fourteen scholars will present over four panels and one roundtable discussion during the two-day conference. The keynote address will be delivered by Pamela Jones, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. A full schedule appears below.
More details about the online event — including how to register — are available at the Regis College website: https://regiscollege.ca/event/imaging-jesuit-sanctity/2022-03-11/
“Imaging Jesuit Sanctity: A conference engaging with the 400th anniversary the canonization of the first Jesuit saints”
Conference Sponsored by Regis College, Toronto
Friday, March 11 (all times EST)
10:30am – 10:45am
Welcome and introductory remarks
Thomas Worcester, SJ, and Alison Fleming, co-organizers
10:45am – 12:15pm
Keynote address
— Framing Sainthood in 1622: Teresa of Avila, Ignatius Loyola, and Francis Xavier
Pamela Jones, professor emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Break
1:30pm – 3:45pm
Panel 1
— Canonizing the Catholic Reformation Religious Order: Ignatius of Loyola and Philip Neri as ‘Founder’ Saints
Thomas Santa Maria, Yale University
— From Caretakers of Lepers to Miraculous Plague Saint: Early Modern Disease and the Image of St. Francis Xavier
Rachel Miller, California State University, Sacramento
— Modeling Miracles: The Visual Creation of Ignatius Loyola’s “Vision at La Storta” in the early 17th century
Alison Fleming, Winston-Salem University
Saturday, March 12
10:00am – 11:15am
Panel 2
— Miracles in Print: A Broadsheet, a Book, and the Cult of Ignatius of Loyola between Bavaria and Rome
Jonathan E. Greenwood, University of Zurich
— Resemblance and the Jesuit Portrait: True Effigies, Disguised Saints, and Holy Likenesses
Grace Harpster, Georgia State University
11:15am – 11:30am
Break
11:30am – 12:45pm
Panel 3
— St. Teresa of Avila and the challenge of shaping female holiness
André Brouillette, SJ, Boston College
— Lives in Translation: Colonial Saints and their Jesuit Hagiographers in Early Modern New France
Mary Dunn, St. Louis University
12:45pm – 1:45pm
Break
1:45pm – 3:00pm
Panel 4
— ‘Love is stronger than death…’: The Mystical Landscape of St. Jean de Brébeuf
Michael Knox, SJ, Shrine of the Canadian Martyrs
— John Ogilvie, Glasgow, and the Path to Sanctity in Early Modern Scotland
Daniel MacLeod, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba
3:00pm – 3:15pm
Break
3:15pm – 4:30pm
Roundtable discussion
Megan Armstrong, McMaster University
Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University
Ruth Noyes, National Museum of Denmark
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
Alison Fleming, Winston-Salem University
Thomas Worcester, SJ, Regis College
4:30pm – 4:45pm
Concluding remarks