The subject of the article is the juridical-historical idea of martyrdom expressed in the De servorum Dei beatificatione et beatorum canonizatione written by Prospero Lambertini, the future pope Benedict 14th. Lambertini's view is, first of all, a juridical one, because he was a jurist, and his professional attitude towards the sanctity was deeply conditioned by this personal situation of the future pope, who thought that, in general, the sanctity could be proved through a special kind of juridical trial, based upon the canon law. This was his opinion also about the demonstration of the martyrdom, which had to be proved through a series of matters of fact that had to be discussed during the canonical trial, also if such kind of facts or such kind of situations were in a certain sense not-demonstrables, because they would belong to the inner dispositions of the martyr or of the persecutor. The author's opinion is that Lambertini indeed was not deeply interested in the problem of contemporary martyrdom, especially when it would concern the missionary contexts, while his analysis is concentrated upon the erudite recapitulation of the stories of martyrs of the late antiquity.
Il concetto storico-giuridico di martirio in Prospero Lambertini
GIOVANNUCCI
2018
Abstract
The subject of the article is the juridical-historical idea of martyrdom expressed in the De servorum Dei beatificatione et beatorum canonizatione written by Prospero Lambertini, the future pope Benedict 14th. Lambertini's view is, first of all, a juridical one, because he was a jurist, and his professional attitude towards the sanctity was deeply conditioned by this personal situation of the future pope, who thought that, in general, the sanctity could be proved through a special kind of juridical trial, based upon the canon law. This was his opinion also about the demonstration of the martyrdom, which had to be proved through a series of matters of fact that had to be discussed during the canonical trial, also if such kind of facts or such kind of situations were in a certain sense not-demonstrables, because they would belong to the inner dispositions of the martyr or of the persecutor. The author's opinion is that Lambertini indeed was not deeply interested in the problem of contemporary martyrdom, especially when it would concern the missionary contexts, while his analysis is concentrated upon the erudite recapitulation of the stories of martyrs of the late antiquity.
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