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Article: A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders.(Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- November 22, 2000
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A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders.
Craig Harline and Eddy Put. Yale University Press, $27.95.
The clerical life
WHEN CATHOLIC Archbishop Mathias Hovius died on May 30, 1620, no crowds swarmed around to try to grab a piece of clothing or even a piece of the corpse itself. However holy his life had been, he was apparently not considered a potential saint. As authors Craig Harline and Eddy Put record, Hovius was "not beloved, but rather respected, and the quite routine ceremonies that followed his death reflected that."
Yet with the publication of this book, Harline and Put reveal a man who, ...