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Leonarde's Ghost : Popular Piety and "The Appearance of a Spirit" in 1628 /

For seven weeks in late spring and early summer of 1628, a ghost haunted the modest dwelling of Huguette Roy and her husband in the small city of Dole in the Holy Roman Empire near the French border. Before and after giving birth to her third child, Huguette received visits twice daily from a young...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mercier, Christophe, active 17th century (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sutch, Susie Speakman (Traductor), Edwards, Kathryn A., 1964- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2022
Colección:Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 82.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : a setting for a ghost story
  • History of the appearance of a spirit
  • Which wappened in the city of Dole, July 24, 1628
  • What happened on the first day
  • What happened from the second day till the tenth
  • What happened from the tenth day till the twentieth
  • What happened the twenty-first day
  • What happened the twenty-second [day] till the thirtieth
  • The spirit declares that it is Leonarde Colin
  • The spirit says that it cannot write and makes a sign of the cross
  • The spirit refuses to take the crucifix in its hand
  • The spirit declares that it has spent seventeen years in purgatory
  • The spirit says it is the true aunt of Huguette
  • The spirit completes its services
  • On the forty-first day the spirit says not a word
  • The holy sacrament is brought
  • The most reverend father Franciscans are visited
  • The trip to Our Lady of Montjeux is made
  • The trip to Our Lady of La Leve is made
  • A prayer of congratulation by Huguette's confessor.