The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950: Between Saints and Celebrities (Numen Book, #167)

by Tine van Osselaer, Andrea Graus, Leonardo Rossi, and Kristof Smeyers

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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'.
  • ISBN10 9004439196
  • ISBN13 9789004439191
  • Publish Date 8 October 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill