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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950: Between Saints and Celebrities

by Tine Van Osselaer, Andrea Graus

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Brill

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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'.

  • Title

    The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950: Between Saints and Celebrities

  • Author

    Tine Van Osselaer

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    October 2020

  • Weight

    854g

  • ISBN

    9789004439191

  • ISBN-10

    9004439196

  • Eden Code

    5292084

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