"The changing nature of sanctity and the emerging procedures for official canonization are reviewed. Alterations to the Lower Church profoundly affected the representation of Francis' life and achievements at Assisi. The unplanned aspects of the fresco cycle of Saint Francis in the Upper Church are considered in the context of contemporary attempts by other mendicant Orders to promote their saints. The Preachers commemorated Dominic in a marble shrine at Bologna. The Augustinian Friars, lacking a 'modern' founding saint, endeavoured unsuccessfully to secure the canonization of Nicholas of Tolentino, and secondarily, Agostino of Tarano. Louis of Toulouse was canonized soon after his death because of Angevin lobbying and papal acquiescence. The Milanese shrine of Peter Martyr may be considered a Dominican riposte. Thomas Aquinas raised particular iconographic problems for which the Dominicans provided various solutions, in Pisa and Florence. Consideration of Elzéar de Sabran, a lay aristocrat who became the third Franciscan saint in 1369 concludes the discussion."
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