Clare Copeland is an Independent Scholar.

• Introduction 1: The Call of the Convent 2: Suor Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi 3: Beata moderna 4: The Life of a Saint 5: Witnesses to holiness 6: Our beata 7: S. Maria degli Angeli and the Barberini family 8: Naples and the Carmelite Order 9: Canonization Afterword Bibliography

Well-researched, clearly argued, and beautifully written, Copeland in her case study of the canonization of Maria Maddalena provides an exemplary framework with which to examine sanctity through the acknowledgment of devotional practices and objects along more secular maneuvering with political and ecclesiastical elites.

Clare Copeland is an Independent Scholar.

• Introduction 1: The Call of the Convent 2: Suor Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi 3: Beata moderna 4: The Life of a Saint 5: Witnesses to holiness 6: Our beata 7: S. Maria degli Angeli and the Barberini family 8: Naples and the Carmelite Order 9: Canonization Afterword Bibliography

Well-researched, clearly argued, and beautifully written, Copeland in her case study of the canonization of Maria Maddalena provides an exemplary framework with which to examine sanctity through the acknowledgment of devotional practices and objects along more secular maneuvering with political and ecclesiastical elites.

Clare Copeland is an Independent Scholar.

• Introduction 1: The Call of the Convent 2: Suor Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi 3: Beata moderna 4: The Life of a Saint 5: Witnesses to holiness 6: Our beata 7: S. Maria degli Angeli and the Barberini family 8: Naples and the Carmelite Order 9: Canonization Afterword Bibliography

Well-researched, clearly argued, and beautifully written, Copeland in her case study of the canonization of Maria Maddalena provides an exemplary framework with which to examine sanctity through the acknowledgment of devotional practices and objects along more secular maneuvering with political and ecclesiastical elites.