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A Florentine Saint as Political Advocate: Filippo Benizi and the Republic of Ragusa

The miracle of the painting of St Filippo Benizi, preserved within the reliquary donated to the Republic of Ragusa by Archbishop Giovanni Vincenzo Lucchesini, recurred on the day of Lucchesini’s solemn entrance to the city on 29 June 1690. Officially recorded by a public notary and testified by a number of ecclesiastical dignitaries, the miracle was immediately interpreted as a sign of the saint’s special benevolence towards the Republic and its citizens who, although surrounded by many enemies, strived to preserve their faith pure and intact. The recognition of St Filippo Benizi as special advocate of the Republic became particularly evident during the 1691 outburst of plague, when the Senate declared him "Avvocato della Nostra Republica" equal to St Blaise. Although the state-endorsed veneration of St Filippo Benizi hardly outlasted Lucchesini’s archiepiscopal service, for a brief period the miraculous image of a saint entirely foreign to the city’s tradition became a testimony of divine predilection and an official mediator of the Republic’s collective faith.

Republic of Ragusa ; Dubrovnik ; St Filippo Benizi ; reliquary ; Giovanni Vincenzo Lucchesini

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