TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kane,Paula M.
TI  - Sister Thorn and Catholic mysticism in modern America
SN  - 9781469612560
AV  - BX4705.R43155 K36 2013eb
U1  - 271/.97 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Chapel Hill, NC
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Reilly, Margaret,
KW  - Sisters of the Good Shepherd
KW  - Biography
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - fast
KW  - Nuns
KW  - Stigmatization
KW  - Stigmatisation
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : A Notorious Case of Bleeding -- Now You Are My Thorn, but Soon You Shall Be My Lily of Delight : The Transformation of Margaret Reilly -- The Monastery Is a Hospital of Spiritual Sick : The Lure of Convent Life -- Mad about Bleeding Nuns : Sister Thorn's Champions -- We Are Skeptics Together about a Great Many Things : Catholics and the Scientific Study of Stigmata -- Cor Jesu Regnabit : Devotional Culture in American Catholicism -- It Is Beautiful to Live with Saints : The Americanization of Modern Sanctity -- Find Sweet Music Everywhere : Modern Catholic Supernaturalism
N2  - One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known as Sister Mary of the Crown of Thorns, she spent most of her life gravely ill and possibly exhibiting Christ's wounds. In this portrait of Sister Thorn, the author scrutinizes the responses to this American stigmatic's experiences and illustrates the surprising presence of mystical phenomena in twentieth-century American Catholicism. Drawing on accounts by clerical authorities, ordinary Catholics, doctors, and journalists - as well as on medicine, anthropology, and gender studies - the author explores American Catholic mysticism, setting it in the context of life after World War I and showing the war's impact on American Christianity. Sister Thorn's life, the author reveals, marks the beginning of a transition among Catholics from a devotional, Old World piety to a newly confident role in American society. --
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