Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City Hardcover – March 28, 2011
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Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City – March 28, 2011
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“Nancy Schultz has produced another extraordinary work of historical recovery, bringing vividly to life a cast of characters that could easily populate a major motion picture even as they reveal hitherto neglected aspects of nineteenth-century social, religious, and intellectual history. The provocative questions raised by Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle will linger, satisfyingly, with readers long after they've reached its unusual conclusion.”—Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
(Megan Marshall)
“An entertaining and meticulously-researched study of one of the first accounts of miraculous healing in the young United States. Schultz illuminates every possible angle of the Mattingly story, thereby enriching American and Catholic history immeasurably.”— Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh
(Paula Kane)
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Review
"Nancy Schultz has written a fascinating narrative highlighting the historical, religious and social dimensions of miraculous cures of Ann Mattingly. This is a first-rate original work of sound scholarship.”—Christopher Kauffman, Catholic University of America
(Christopher Kauffman)"Schultz's work to track down information about the key figures, previous events and subsequent experience is remarkable. She tells the full story, with 'thick description' of the 'Capital Miracles'.”—David O'Brien, Holy Cross
(David O'Brien) “Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle uses terrific archival work and shrewd analysis to firmly anchor a remarkable episode in American religious history in a transatlantic context.”— John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame
(John T. McGreevy)“Nancy Schultz has produced another extraordinary work of historical recovery, bringing vividly to life a cast of characters that could easily populate a major motion picture even as they reveal hitherto neglected aspects of nineteenth-century social, religious, and intellectual history. The provocative questions raised by Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle will linger, satisfyingly, with readers long after they've reached its unusual conclusion.”—Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
(Megan Marshall)
“An entertaining and meticulously-researched study of one of the first accounts of miraculous healing in the young United States. Schultz illuminates every possible angle of the Mattingly story, thereby enriching American and Catholic history immeasurably.”— Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh
(Paula Kane)
"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
(Daniel Stashower The Washington Post)“Nancy Lusignan Schultz . . . has resurrected important aspects of Catholic life in the history of the United States for a new generation.”—Our Sunday Visitor
(Our Sunday Visitor)“Nancy Lusignan Schultz . . . succeeds at infusing Washington’s ragtag days with an aura of supernatural intrigue.”—Washingtonian
(Washingtonian)“[Schultz] deftly weaves the story within the context of the social and religious issues confronting the early 19th-century American Catholic Church. . . . Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle provides the reader an invaluable insight into early American Catholicism.”—America Magazine
(America Magazine)“A delightful and vibrant telling of a mysterious historical event that [Schultz] delicately excavates from the sands of time. . . . Schultz is both a captivating storyteller and a meticulous historical researcher.”—C. Christopher Smith, Books and Culture
(C. Christopher Smith Books and Culture) About the Author
Nancy Lusignan Schultz is professor of English, Salem State University, Salem, MA.
Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City Hardcover – March 28, 2011
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (March 28, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0300118465
- ISBN-13: 978-0300118469
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #906,413 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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