Public ritual in late medieval and Renaissance Florence was largely dependent on the cults of the city's patron saints, relics, and sacred images. (1) For example, each time a new bishop entered Florence to take possession of the bishopric, on his way from the church of S. Pier Maggiore to the cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore he would pause in the Borgo degli Albizzi. There, he would kneel and pray before a stone plaque situated where it was believed Florence's first sainted bishop, Zenobius (d. ca. 424), resurrected the son of a French pilgrim during the late fourth or the early fifth century. (2) This was only one of several monuments in the city associated with Saint ...