PROJECT SUMMARY:   San Diego de Alcala (also known as San Diego de San Nicolas del Puerto)  was an obscure Franciscan lay brother who was born in the Iberian kingdom of Castile around 1400 and died in November, 1463.  One hundred and twenty-five years later (July 1588), he became the first saint created during the Counter-Reformation Period.  Since the 1990s, I have been researching and writing about the career and eventual canonization of this figure.  The ultimate goal of this research is to produce a monograph tentatively entitled San Diego de Alcala:  the Process and Politics of Saint-making in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

(1)   General Information

(2)   Research Summary (Past and Present)

(3)   Papers and Publications

(4)   An Appeal for Help!!