Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City [Kindle Edition]
Author: Nancy Lusignan Schultz | Language: English | ISBN: B004WSO62E | Format: PDF, EPUB
Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City
Download Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link In 1824 in Washington, D.C., Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sickbed free from agonizing pain and able to enjoy an additional thirty-one years of life. The Mattingly miracle purportedly came through the intervention of a charismatic German cleric, Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, who was credited already with hundreds of cures across Europe and Great Britain. Though nearly forgotten today, Mattingly's astonishing healing became a polarizing event. It heralded a rising tide of anti-Catholicism in the United States that would culminate in violence over the next two decades. Nancy L. Schultz deftly weaves analysis of this episode in American social and religious history together with the astonishing personal stories of both Ann Mattingly and the healer Prince Hohenlohe, around whom a cult was arising in Europe. Schultz's riveting book brings to light an early episode in the ongoing battle between faith and reason in the United States. Books with free ebook downloads available Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City [Kindle Edition]
Download Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link In 1824 in Washington, D.C., Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sickbed free from agonizing pain and able to enjoy an additional thirty-one years of life. The Mattingly miracle purportedly came through the intervention of a charismatic German cleric, Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, who was credited already with hundreds of cures across Europe and Great Britain. Though nearly forgotten today, Mattingly's astonishing healing became a polarizing event. It heralded a rising tide of anti-Catholicism in the United States that would culminate in violence over the next two decades. Nancy L. Schultz deftly weaves analysis of this episode in American social and religious history together with the astonishing personal stories of both Ann Mattingly and the healer Prince Hohenlohe, around whom a cult was arising in Europe. Schultz's riveting book brings to light an early episode in the ongoing battle between faith and reason in the United States. Books with free ebook downloads available Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 1056 KB
- Print Length: 287 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0300118465
- Publisher: Yale University Press (April 26, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004WSO62E
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #957,114 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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