Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325

 186 LaCitadeSancta down in Verona and taking up the trade of a harness maker in a shop near the monastery of San Salvatore. Hi ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 187  this kind of holiness immediately. The daughter of Parisio and Emilia of Metula, near Massa San ...

 188 LaCitadeSancta four years.^50 Bricked into a room attached to the local church, she became an urban hermitess. The arrange ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 189  of Christ, which Ranieri of Pisa witnessed while on pilgrimage to Saint Pe- ter’s, made him doub ...

 190 LaCitadeSancta Lay prophecy need not deal with grand events. The pious goldsmith Saint Facio of Cremona was staying in Mod ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 191  the most important traits of sanctity were patience and humility in the com- pany of family and ...

 192 LaCitadeSancta very first sentence. Omobono was a ‘‘rose among thorns.’’^72 The witnesses at Giovanni Buono’s canonization ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 193  Service,Citizenship,andSanctity Asceticism was ultimately second to service. When Giovanni of Ch ...

 194 LaCitadeSancta Pisa to purchase material for making combs, the locals tried to cheat the naive Sienese bumpkin with defect ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 195  Pietro ran into the members of the Bargello family who were responsible for night guard. Althoug ...

 196 LaCitadeSancta invoking their new saint in rhyming verse.^102 Raimondo’s hospital became a training ground for other socia ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 197  to him in a dream and telling him to wake up because the building was on fire.^106 Saints cared ...

 198 LaCitadeSancta works to the women, but even a craftsman could serve as physician of the soul. Pietro Pettinaio, on the way ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 199  rardo of Cagnoli with ending civil strife at Castro dei Marti in the contado of Pisa as late as ...

 200 LaCitadeSancta ally exorcized demoniacs (even nuns, at the bishop’s request), and practiced his trade for the glory of God ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 201  pray for cures. The disgusted friars kicked the offerings over and threw the devotees out, but t ...

 202 LaCitadeSancta the candle remained lighted in spite of the wind.^142 The miracles that fol- lowed were more substantial, i ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 203  water-related miracles: safety during storms at sea, aid for dropsy, and cures for jaundice.^151 ...

 204 LaCitadeSancta Any publicity was good publicity. The bishop of Mantua was preaching a sermon in honor of Saint Giovanni Bu ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 205  bardy, people made pilgrimage to the shrine at Cremona. Among these was a group of wine carriers ...