Pope John Paul II famously canonized more saints than all his predecessors combined. Several of these candidates were controversial. To this day thereremain holy men and women on the books of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints whose canonization would provoke considerable debate. This was no less true during the period covered in this pioneering study by renowned medieval historian Ronald C. Finucane. This work, which forms an important bridge between medieval and Counter-Reformation sanctity and canonization, provides a richly contextualized analysis of the ways in which the...