@article{Arronis Llopis_2021, title={SEVERUS OF BARCELONA IN THE EARLY REFORMATION HAGIOGRAPHY}, url={https://revistas.ucv.es/specula/index.php/specula/article/view/895}, abstractNote={<div style="text-align: justify;"> <p>This work compares the narrative of Bishop Saint Severus of Barcelona that circulated in the medieval period, in particular, the life that was printed in the Catalan Flos sanctorum (1524), with the narrative of the saint proposed by the first post-Tridentine Catalan hagiographers: the Jesuit Pere Gil (ca. 1600), and the Dominican Antoni Vicenç Domènec (1602). Both authors wanted to amend the news that had become popular about the Catalan bishop, such as that he was a linen weaver, that he had a family or that his election as bishop had been by divine designation, episodes that, in fact, belong to the life of Bishop St. Severus of Ravenna. The first modern Catalan hagiographers tried to bring historicity and authority to the new story, but they had to face dubious and contradictory information about the existence of the holy bishop. It will be interesting, then, to see the methodological and discursive strategies they applied in order to justify what data they accepted as valid and how they articulated them to construct the new identity of the patron saint. However, we will see that the task was not easy, and that the medieval image will continue to be rooted in the devotees over the centuries.</p> </div>}, number={1}, journal={Specula Revista de Humanidades y Espiritualidad}, author={Arronis Llopis, Carme}, year={2021}, month={Jun.}, pages={153–182} }