Religious literature and hagiography belong to the core topics of the SRA which connect to further research projects.

Patryk M. Ryczkowski, PI in the Sub-Project 6 Neo-Latin and the Newcomers and currently also a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vilnius University, organised a conference Hagiographic Identities: Catholic Communities and Their Saints in Early Modern Times which took place from 15 to 17 October 2026 at the Faculty of Philology of the Vilnius University and gathered scholars from Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, the Netherlands and Great Britain.

While focusing on early modern hagiography in the context of the contemporary cultic practices, the presentations put emphasis on the Basilians, the representatives of monasticism in the eastern Europe and, in particular, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The keynote lecture was delivered by Melchior Jakubowski (Warsaw), scholar of the Basilian art and recent winner of the ERC Starting Grant (2026) devoted to the Basilians. Not least, also the members of the SRA contributed the papers:

• O. Lorena Purcaro, The ‘Discovery’ of the Greek Hagiography of St. Januarius: A Modern Forgery;
• Alexia Dedieu, Adrien Jourdan’s Susanna tragoedia: Ancient and New Dramatic Models on the Stage in 17th-Century France;
• Federica Rossetti, “Sanctus erat Erasmus”: Attempts at the Canonization of the Humanist of Rotterdam?