Celebrating Teresa of Avila: The Discalced Carmelites in Italy and Their Mission to Persia and the East Indies (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)

Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Introduction
	1 Teresa of Avila and the Renewal of Carmel
	2 A Radical Rupture: The Papal Creation of the Spanish and Italian Congregations
	3 Teresa of Avila on the Stage of Universal Catholicism: The Standardization of Official Holiness
	4 Festivities, the Dissemination of Teresa’s Holy Persona, and the Creation of Communities of Devotees
	5 Foundations in Europe and Asia Treated in the Book
	6 The Book’s Structure and Evidence for the Festivities
Part 1 Teresa’s Beatification Celebrations in Italy, 1614
1 A Triumphal Procession for Cloistered Nuns in Genoa
	1 Nicolò Doria and the Discalced Carmelites in Genoa
	2 Maddalena Centurione Spinola and the Convent and Church of Gesù e Maria
	3 Father Marcello’s Beatification Apparato for Gesù e Maria
	4 The Choir of Virgin Martyrs, Early Mosaics, and Verae Effigies
	5 The Procession of Virgins in Praise of Blessed Teresa
2 Matriarch of a Global Missionary Order in Papal Rome
	1 Father Marcello’s Apparato for the Beatification Festivities in S. Maria della Scala
	2 The Audiences for the Beatification Festivities
	3 An Overarching Theme to Engage and Inspire All Audiences: Teresa Likened to the Madonna of Carmel
	4 Teresa as the Matriarch of a Global Missionary Order in Service of the Universal Church
	5 Blessed Teresa’s Official Persona Proclaimed in the Nave Chapels’ Imagery
	6 The Harmonious Balance of Teresa’s Active and Contemplative Life
	7 Teresa’s Miracles in Imitation of Christ and the Apostles, and Compared to Those of Elijah
	8 Teresa’s Sublime Virtues and Title of Sanctity
3 ”Founder and Doctor and Virgin”: Spanish Holy Woman in Viceregal Naples
	1 Pedro de la Madre de Dios, Elite Patrons, and the Italian Congregation’s Expansion to Naples
	2 The Friary and Church of the Madre di Dio
	3 Precious Furnishings and Devotional Objects Made for Blessed Teresa’s Beatification Celebrations
	4 Teresa as the Spanish Crown’s Holy Woman: Viceroy Pedro Fernández de Castro and the Beatification Festivities
	5 Participants in the Beatification Celebrations
	6 The Church’s Beatification Apparato
Part 2 Teresa’s Italian Canonization Celebrations, 1622
4 Canonizing Five New Saints in St. Peter’s Basilica
	1 The Politics of Sainthood: Isidore of Madrid
	2 The Canonization Ceremony
	3 The Commemorative Engraving of the Canonization with Papal Imprimatur
	4 The Canonization and Codification of Teresa’s Saintly Image
	5 St. Teresa’s Canonization Standard: The Transverberation
	6 St. Teresa, Author-Founder, and Miracle-Worker
5 Honoring St. Teresa in S. Maria Della Scala, Rome
	1 The Procession
	2 The Solemnizations
	3 Solemnization Imagery in S. Maria della Scala, Ephemeral and Permanent
6 A Triumphal Procession for Philip Iv’s New Saint in Viceregal Naples
	1 Cardinal-Viceroy Antonio Zapata y Cisneros and Lord Councilor Cesare Alterisio, Planner of the Festivities
	2 Inaugurating the Celebration at the Church of S. Giuseppe Maggiore
	3 The Procession’s Participants and Objects of Devotion
	4 The Processional Route: Its Decorations and Innovations
	5 The Culminating Celebrations at the Madre di Dio
Part 3 The Mission to Persia and the East Indies: Conversionary Aspirations and Festivities
7 New Challenges: Confronting Ethnic and Religious Diversity
	1 Aspirations and Travails in Isfahan
	2 Conversionary Strategies
	3 The Limits of Religious Dialogue in Isfahan
	4 Hormuz and Goa: The Discourse of Ethnicity and Religion in the Estado da Índia
	5 Ethnicity, Language Facility, and the Admission of Novices
8 Celebrating Teresa’s Beatification in Hormuz in Portugal’s Estado da Índia
	1 The Expansion to Hormuz
	2 The Friary and Oratory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
	3 Father Leandro de la Anunciación, Designer of Teresa’s Celebrations in Hormuz
	4 Festivities for Hormuz’s Diverse Population
	5 Celebrating Teresa’s Memoria in 1612
	6 Captain Luís da Gama and Teresa’s Beatification Festivities
	7 The Demise of the Hormuz Mission
9 Teresa’s Canonization Festivities in Goa, Rome of the East
	1 The Expansion to Goa
	2 Celebrations for a Heterogeneous Population
	3 Teresa’s Cult in Goa and the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
	4 The Canonization Celebrations
	5 Celebrating the News of Teresa’s Canonization in May 1623
	6 Publicizing a Poetry Competition in October 1623
	7 Canonization Celebrations at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in November 1623
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Index