Italian saints

Canonized religious Italians

Italian saints are figures from Italian Catholic tradition who have been canonized by the Church—Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Anthony of Padua, and dozens of others.

The phrase often appears in discussions of religious art, pilgrimage sites, or Catholic devotional practice: The museum's collection focuses on Italian saints of the medieval period.

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Benedict · holy orders · patron · miracles · cathedral · Santa Maria · Rome · Vatican · fresco · halo · devotion · Clare · pilgrimage · monastery · veneration · Padua · Anthony · rosary

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moral/spiritual status

Italian saintsMussolini

Italian fascist premier

Nero · Caligula

religious recognition

Italian saintsGiordano Bruno

Renaissance cosmological heretic

sacred vs. secular

Italian saintsMachiavelli

Political realism's founding theorist

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