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Eleven papers, from a conference held in Wisconsin in 1992, focus on specific people or movements from the Middle Ages and from the 20th century in order to define the spiritual characteristics of the laity and to distinguish these elements from those of the religious. A principal aim is to answer the question of whether lay sanctity was regarded as inferior and to explain why so few saints came from the laity. The first six papers discuss the medieval period with subjects including pilgrimages, Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe and the pious infant. The remaining five papers consider the 20th century to discover the ways in which lay sanctity has changed, if at all. These papers examine Elizabeth Leseur, Gertraud von Bullion, Jacques Maritain and works of mercy.