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- Title
Thérèse of Lisieux in Austria: A Case Study of Transnational Catholic Revivalism.
- Authors
Thorpe, Julie
- Abstract
Thèrése of Lisieux's canonization in May 1925 went almost unnoticed in the mainstream Austrian Catholic press: the leading Catholic newspaper in Vienna, Die Reichspost, mentioning only that St Peter's dome had been aglow for an unnamed new saint in Rome. Of more immediate interest to Vienna's Catholic press, and to Austria's clergy, was the canonization of the Jesuit counter-Reformation preacher, Peter Canisius, the latter day "Apostle to the Germans." Yet St Thèrése's presence and importance for Austrian Catholics are evident in other forms of associational and devotional life: the Eucharistic People's League founded in Vienna in 1920 included extended coverage of her life, ministry and death. Icons and stained glass windows depicting Thèrése, as well as churches built to commemorate her life, attest to her growing popularity throughout Austria in the interwar period. This paper traces Thèrésian devotion in interwar Austria and places the French saint in a larger context of international Catholicism in the twentieth century.
- Subjects
VIENNA (Austria); AUSTRIA; THERESE, de Lisieux, Saint, 1873-1897; VENERATION of Christian saints; CATHOLIC Church; CANONIZATION; CHRISTIAN saints; DEVOTIONS; LORD'S Supper in the Catholic Church; PIETY; RELIGIOUS identity; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
French History & Civilization, 2011, Vol 4, p133
- ISSN
1832-9683
- Publication type
Article