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The tragic tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War / Raymond Jonas.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jonas, Raymond, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Sacred Heart, Devotion to--France--History of doctrines--20th century.
- Sacred Heart, Devotion to.
- Ferchaud, Claire, 1896-1972.
- Ferchaud, Claire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame as a modern-day Joan of Arc at the height of World War I. Claire experienced her first vision after a childhood trauma in which her mother locked her in a closet to break her stubborn willfulness. She developed her visionary gifts with the aid of spiritual directors and, by the age of twenty, she had come to believe that Jesus wanted France consecrated to the Sacred Heart. Claire believed that if France undertook this devotion, symbolized by adding the image of the Sacred Heart to the French flag, it would enjoy rapid victory in the war. From her modest origins to her spectacular ascent, Claire's life and times are deftly related with literary verve and insight in a book that gives a rare view of the French countryside during the Great War.
- Contents:
- The Great War in the European imagination
- Miracle or "miracle?"
- Carnal vision and saintly ambition
- Spiritual patronage and a mission to save France
- Silent eruptions : Claire and her public
- In the footsteps of Joan
- A kind of apotheosis : Claire goes to Paris
- Claire's story goes public : the Sacred Heart and the Union Sacree
- Consecration by proxy
- The unraveling
- The unmaking of a saint
- Prologue as epilogue : the story of Jonas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612763120
- 9781282763128
- 1282763121
- 9780520938281
- 0520938283
- 9781597349475
- 159734947X
- OCLC:
- 57535019
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