Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America - Hardcover

Kane, Paula M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469607603 ISBN 13: 9781469607603

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2013

Synopsis

Kane, Paula M.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About the Author:

Paula M. Kane is associate professor and John and Lucine O'Brien Marous Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1469607603
• ISBN 13: 9781469607603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328