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Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America (Paperback)
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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, Paula M. Kane 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 - Kane 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, she
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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