The aim of the article is to present the figure of St. Therese of Jesus as a role model of religious life in selected works of post-Trent hagiography. The source material comprises of a biography included in the 1780 edition of Peter Skarga’s lives of saints and a collection of the lives of Carmelite saints by Fr. Philip of the Holy Trinity (1746). Besides the basic biographical content, the texts under discussion include characteristic features of Therese as a role model of a religious, following the Trent Council regulations. The article is published to commemorate the 500th anniversary of St. Therese’s birthday (1515-2015).
The aim of the article is to present "The Life of the Servant of God Regina Protmann" (1623) as an example of Post-Trent hagiography. Its main heroine is the foundress of the Congregation of Saint Catherine, Virgin and Martyr (died 1613). The author’s goal is to construct a role model acceptable to contemporary readers. He relies on the authority of the Scripture, personal accounts of the meetings with the Blessed and her own writings. Following the principles of the new hagiography, he does not insert miracles or other fantastic motives to make his work more credible. They are replaced by detailed descriptions of Regina’s actual deeds and virtues.
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