Thinking with Jesuit Saints: The Canonization of Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier in Context

Abstract The significance of the two founder saints to contribution made by Jesuit missionaries, many whom became martyrs, making Roman Catholicism as a world religion, was explicit not at canonization ceremony itself, nor in celebratory processions through streets Rome, but events and decorations put up within spaces controlled Jesuits themselves Gesù, Collegio Romano, novitiate S. Andrea al Quirinale. This points wider phenomenon, pursued complementary fashion six essays that follow: how one “became” saint came enjoy cult (then now) has more do with particular, local appropriation interpretation (including Rome itself) than official papal, universal approbation.