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Il Santo schiavo. Devozioni e culti a Benedetto nelle Americhe
2009
Bruno Pellegrino (a cura di), Ordini religiosi, santi e culti tra Europa, Mediterraneo e Nuovo Mondo (secoli XV-XVII), Lecce, Congedo, 2009, tomo II, pp. 639-671.
The slave, the king and the cardinal. Benedict the Moor's iconography in the 17th century
2006
In the history of sainthood, cult and devotion, images play a role just as important as that played by relics. Being a representation of the saint that is portrayed, the holy image is an active presence, and the cult of the saint feeds on pictures whose creation comes from the need for the materialization of the sacred. Throughout the canonization process of Benedict the Moor (1594-1807) images were produced and listed, together with hagiographies, as an expression of the devotion for the Santo Negro. The production started just after his death in 1589 and the transfer of his body into a wooden coffin, placed at the feet of the altar of Santa Maria di Gesu church in Palermo in 1611. Then it…