TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kane,Paula M.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Sister Thorn and Catholic mysticism in modern America
SN  - 9781469612560
AV  - BX4705.R43155 K36 2013
U1  - 271/.97B 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chapel Hill, NC
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Reilly, Margaret,
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sisters of the Good Shepherd
KW  - Biography
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
KW  - Stigmatization
KW  - Nuns
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
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, 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"--; "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469612560/
ER  -