Saints During the Inquisition

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Does anybody know a good source which gives a timeline of the saints during the period of all the inquisitions and how their spiritual lives and their actions may have been influenced by the events of the time? I know several of the popes of the middle ages were canonized. There was also St. Francis of Assissi, St. Clare of Assissi, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier.
 
Quaere_Verum said:
Does anybody know a good source which gives a timeline of the saints during the period of all the inquisitions and how their spiritual lives and their actions may have been influenced by the events of the time? I know several of the popes of the middle ages were canonized. There was also St. Francis of Assissi, St. Clare of Assissi, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier.
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I don’t know of a timeline, but St. Francis and St. Clare are too early to be included in a timeline for the institution known as the Inquisition. Some of the Saints who were alive during that period would be St. Teresa of Jesus (who had no fear of it, btw), St. John of the Cross, St. Dominic, St. Peter of Alcantara.
 
FCEGM said:
I don’t know of a timeline, but St. Francis and St. Clare are too early to be included in a timeline for the institution known as the Inquisition. Some of the Saints who were alive during that period would be St. Teresa of Jesus (who had no fear of it, btw), St. John of the Cross, St. Dominic, St. Peter of Alcantara.
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Ummm … Sts Francis of Assisi, St Clare and St Dominic (de Guzman) lived very much around the same time - St Francis I believe died after St Dominic and St Clare went on for 20-odd years after both of them.

On of the saints most associated with the Roman Inquisition would be St Robert Bellarmine, a cardinal of the late 1500s-early 1600s.
 
LilyM said:
Ummm … Sts Francis of Assisi, St Clare and St Dominic (de Guzman) lived very much around the same time - St Francis I believe died after St Dominic and St Clare went on for 20-odd years after both of them. . .
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Lily, I know they lived around the same time - Sts. Francis and Clare in particular. 🙂 What I was pointing out was that they both lived too early to be considered Saints of the Inquisition period.
 
St. Peter Martyr (aka St. Peter of Verona) was an inquisitor until he was brutally murdered by the Cathars (he’s the saint often depicted with an axe in his head).

St. Pius V was also an inquisitor before becoming pope.
 
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