Roma, León y Lisboa: variaciones memorísticas del culto medieval a San Adrián y Santa Natalia by José Alberto Moráis Morán

“…In this paper the different processes of medieval memory construction of Saints Adrian and Natalia are studied through the presence of their relics in the altars of some churches in Rome, León and Lisbon. Following the martyrdom of Saint Adrian in the East and the transference of his mortal remains by his wife to Byzantium, it was between the 7th and the 13rd centuries that their worship was developed in the Iberian Peninsula therefore creating significant worship strategies. …”
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La presenza dei valdesi nel territorio dauno by Caterina Celeste Berardi

“…Waldism is the only so-called ‘heretical’ movement of medieval Europe to have survived until today, facing the threat of the inquisitorial repression implemented by the Church of Rome, continuously redefining its identity and becoming essentially a citizen of the origins (Lyon and the Lombard cities) to rural. …”
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MARCION OF SYNOPE’S RELEVANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD VIS-À-VIS RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by G Andrade

“…While he made a handsome financial contribution to the Church of Rome, he was eventually excommunicated. Yet, even if his doctrines can seem extravagant, contradictory, alien to modern values, and even anti-Semitic, his theology is relevant in our contemporary world because of the ever-growing threat of religious violence and fundamentalism. …”
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Echanges et transformations de l’Annonciation : D’un groupe statuaire en marbre (Toulouse, Musée des Augustins,XIIe siècle) à un bas-relief en bronze d’Igor Mitoraj (Rome, Santa Ma... by Sandra Gorgievski

“…In spite of radically distinct cultural models and divergent religious practice, both the vivid statues from a lost XIIth century Romanesque church in Toulouse and the 2006 newly sculpted doors of a church in Rome attempt to stage the message sent by God through the Angel Gabriel. …”
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