Mrs. Mattingly's miracle : the prince, the widow, and the cure that shocked Washington City / Nancy Lusignan Schultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich, Fürst, 1794-1849.

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich.

Mattingly, Ann, 1782?-1855--Health.

Mattingly, Ann.

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Washington (D.C.).

Breast.

Miracles--Washington (D.C.).

Miracles.

Spiritual healing--Washington (D.C.).

Spiritual healing.

Physical Description:

xii, 274 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

prologue Washington City, 1824

one Introduction

Two The Prince and the Princess

Three From St. Mary's County, Southern Maryland, to the Federal City

Four Thaumaturgus and Priest

Five A Capital Miracle

Six Aftermath

Seven Conclusion

Carbery- Mattingly Family Tree

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-09624-2

9786613096241

0-300-17170-6

OCLC:

719383015