Omschrijving
Catholics adopted modern means and new types of religious expression to foster mass devotions that epitomized the catholic essence of the “nation.” In many ways, the development of Marian devotions across the world is also a response to the questioning of Pope Sovereignty.
Roberto Di Stefano is Researcher of Conicet (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina) and Professor at the University of La Pampa, Argentina. His publications include Historia de la Iglesia argentina. De la conquista a fines del siglo XX, co-authored with Loris Zanatta, El púlpito y la plaza. Clero, sociedad y política de la monarquía católica a la república rosista, and Ovejas negras. Historia de los anticlericales argentinos.
Francisco Javier Ramón Solans is Research Assistant at the University of Münster, Germany. He is the author of La Virgen del Pilar dice… Usos políticos y nacionales de un culto mariano en la España contemporánea. He has published several articles and books chapters on Marian devotions, political prophecies and Ultramontanism.