ABSTRACTIn this article, I argue that the houses and memorabilia collections associated with venerated personages played an important role in campaigns to elevate popular, unofficial, saintly figures to the level of the blessed or even canonised saints. Two practices converged in these campaigns: the Catholic tradition of sacralising specific sites and endowing material remnants with special meaning, and the ‘museumification’ of memorial houses and collections. The focus here is on the use of material culture in the beatification campaigns for modern stigmatics (who carried the wounds of Christ). Of the hundreds of cases that were reported, only a few were beatified and canonised. The article concentrates primarily on one success story: the evolution of the German stigmatic Anne Catherine Emmerick (1774–1824) from a ‘living saint’ to her being officially blessed (2004) and the role that her houses and possessions played in the promotion of her cult following and image construction.

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“价值最高，保存最仔细”：利用圣人的房屋和纪念品收藏品为他们封圣

摘要在本文中，我认为与受人尊敬的人物相关的房屋和纪念品收藏在将受欢迎的、非官方的、圣人提升到受祝福甚至被封为圣人的水平的运动中发挥了重要作用。在这些运动中融合了两种做法：将特定地点祭祀并赋予材料残余特殊意义的天主教传统，以及纪念馆和收藏品的“博物馆化”。这里的重点是物质文化在现代污名（背负基督的伤口）的宣福运动中的使用。在报告的数百起案件中，只有少数被宣福和封圣。本文主要关注一个成功案例：