The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950

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  • Author : Tine Van Osselaer
  • Release Date : 2021
  • Publisher : Numen Book
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 470
  • ISBN 13 : 9789004439191
  • File Size : 47,47 MB
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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950 by Tine Van Osselaer PDF Summary

Book Description: "In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the 'stigmatic': young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the 'saints' and religious 'celebrities' of their time. With their 'miraculous' bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious 'celebrities'"--

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