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mods: The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800-1950 between saints and celebrities Osselaer, Tine van creator author. Graus, Andrea author. Rossi, Leonardo 1989- author. Smeyers, Kristof 1988- author. JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography Electronic books. History. ne 2021 monographic eng remote 1 online resource "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'"-- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 1 Stigmatics -- Tine Van Osselaer, Leonardo Rossi and Kristof Smeyers, -- in collaboration with Andrea Graus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tracing Stigmata -- 3 The Invention of "Stigmatics" -- 4 Building Blocks -- 2 Saints and Celebrities -- Tine Van Osselaer -- 1 Saints in the Spotlight -- 2 The Scale of Fame: Transnational and Comparative Approach -- 3 Religious Celebrities -- 4 An Interactive Approach -- 3 On Stigmata, Suffering and Sanctity -- Tine Van Osselaer -- 1 Theodor Nolde's Visit -- 2 The "Spectacle" of the Holy Wounds -- 3 The Meaning of Suffering -- 4 The Effect of Suffering on the Visitors -- 4 Visiting Stigmatics and Their Promotion from the Ground Up The Devotees, the Unofficial Movements and the Episcopate in France -- Andrea Graus -- 1 French Stigmatics and Visitors' Expectations -- 2 Inside the Fridays of Passion -- 3 The Diocesan Response to the Visits -- 4 The Visitors' Unofficial Moveme…