Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle

Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City Paperback – February 25, 2014

Author: Visit Amazon's Nancy Lusignan Schultz Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0300205899 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City – February 25, 2014
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"'At a time when academic historians seem to be committed to prose that is deadly dull, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, a professor of English, lets the story emerge as a good yarn, not a big yawn... she brings an impressive depth of scholarship to this odd, forgotten chapter of America's early social history... The result is a gripping slice of history with fresh, often unsettling resonances for the modern reader.' (Daniel Stashower, The Washington Post) 'Schultz is at her best when she is blending the theological nuances of early-19th-century American Catholicism into her finely etched portrait of the society in which Ann Mattingly lived.' (Fergus M. Bordewich, The Wall Street Journal)"

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Nancy Lusignan Schultz is professor of English, Salem State University, Salem, MA.

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• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press; Reprint edition (February 25, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300205899
• ISBN-13: 978-0300205893
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #886,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Schultz, a professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, is a well known writer on antebellum Catholicism, having previously authored Fire and Roses: The Burning of Charlestown Convent, 1834, published in 2000. With Mrs. Mattingly's miracle, she tells the story of a faith healing, via long distance, by a well known German priest, Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, of an American Catholic woman named Ann Carberry Mattingly suffering from life threatening Cancer. Schultz presents a dual biography of the American lay woman and her German clerical healer, two persons who never actually met. She also tells us much about antebellum America with the tensions between Protestants and Catholics and faith and reason. She includes many side stories, such as the Wizard's Clip haunting in frontier Virginia or a notorious witch in southern Maryland, and across the Atlantic with various examples of the faithful, usually women, apparently healed by the touch or prayers of Prince Hohenlohe, who was not otherwise without his detractors.

Above all, this is the story of Ann Carberry Mattingly, a member of St. Patrick's Church and a woman of profound faith. This is also the story of her successful brother Thomas Carberry, who was mayor of Washington while her estranged husband Joseph Mattingly was a perpetual debtor. To make matters even more interesting, her son, like his father before him, became estranged from the family after eloping with a mixed race woman. Perhaps the most amazing, if not unbelievable, aspect of Ann's story is that she had a second miracle in 1831, seven years after her first healing, this time for a severely infected leg and without the intercession of the famous German Priest.

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