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Zwischen Himmel und Erde : körperliche Zeichen der Heiligkeit.
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ISBN: 9783515102834 3515102833 Year: 2012 Volume: 11 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner


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The stigmata in medieval and early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780198795643 0198795645 019183694X 0192515136 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving the five wounds of Christ. The early thirteenth-century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as unexpected as it first seems. Interpretations of Galatians 6:17-I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body-had been circulating since the early Middle Ages in biblical commentaries. These works perceived those with the stigmata as metaphorical representations of martyrs bearing the marks of persecution in order to spread the teaching of Christ in the face of resistance. By the seventh century, the meaning of Galatians 6:17 had been appropriated by bishops and priests as a sign or mark of Christ that they received invisibly at their ordination. Priests and bishops came to be compared to soldiers of Christ, who bore the brand (stigmata) of God on their bodies, just like Roman soldiers who were branded with the name of their emperor. In the eleventh century, monks and nuns were preceived as bearing the stigmata in so far as they lived a life of renunciation out of love for Christ By the early twelfth century, crusaders were said to bear the actual marks of the passion in death and even sometimes as they entered into battle.The Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the birth and evolution of religious stigmata and particularly of stigmatic theology, as understood through the ensemble of theological discussions and devotional practices. Carolyn Muessig assesses the role stigmatics played in medieval and early modern religious culture, and the way their contemporaries reacted to them. The period studied covers the dominant discourse of stigmatic theology: that is, from Peter Damian's eleventh-century theological writings to 1630 when the papacy officially recognised the authenticity of Catherine of Siena's stigmata


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Marthe Robin : mystica of hysterica ?
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ISBN: 9789492434227 Year: 2020 Publisher: Gent Carmelitana

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Op 16 februari 1981 sterft Marthe Robin, bijgenaamd de ‘gestigmatiseerde van de Drôme’. Door velen wordt ze beschouwd als één van de grote mystici uit de voorbije decennia. Meer dan honderdduizend mensen brachten haar een bezoek in de kleine hoeve waar ze blijvend aan haar bed gekluisterd was, verlamd en blind. Velen ontvingen bij die gelegenheid een verhelderend antwoord op hun vragen. Gedurende jaren beleefde ze elke vrijdag het lijden van Christus. Ze was de bezielster van de Foyers de Charité’ die over heel de wereld centra zijn van evangelisatie. Meerdere stichters van nieuwe religieuze communiteiten vonden bij haar inspiratie en bemoediging. Van hogerhand ontving Koen De Meester de uitnodiging om haar geschriften kritisch te onderzoeken, liefst vierduizend getypte bladzijden. Met de hem eigen nauwkeurigheid en niet aflatende speurzin gaat hij als een echte detective aan de slag. Ter plaatse onderzoekt hij haar kamer en kasten, spreekt met mensen die haar nog gekend hebben, gaat op zoek naar documenten die niemand meer kent. Laag na laag gaat hij dieper delven om tenslotte de echte Marthe Robin te ontdekken. Tot zijn eigen verbazing stelt hij vast dat haar heiligheid en mystieke ervaring iets heel anders verbergen… Zijn bevindingen publiceerde hij eerst in Frankrijk. Daar sloeg zijn boek in als een bom. Dit boek is een vlot leesbare samenvatting van de Franse studie.


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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, C. 1800-1950 : Between Saints and Celebrities
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ISBN: 9789004439191 9004439196 9789004439351 9004439358 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV,

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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'.

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