In my paper I will argue that the translation of the Stepto’s translation reflects a cultural bias and shows little effort at researching the nun's deeds and words. In 1996, an English translation of her memoirs was published. Unfortunately, the original manuscript was lost and the text which has survived is a copy, probably penned by an amanuensis.
Dressed as a man for almost two decades, she travelled to the Colonies to test her luck in the army, where she made the grade of ensign. Yet, the extraordinary phenomena kept on recurring around her till her death in 1888.Ĭatalina de Erauso was a Spanish nun-turned soldier-who lived in 17th century Spain. After this even Imbert-Gourbeyre was advised not to republish his successful book on her. While Louise’s fame continued to rise in the subsequent years, Palma’s celebrity was undermined by the hostility of the local church authorities, and an inquisitorial examination of her which ended in 1872 with a negative judgement, ranging her cause in the frame of “afettata santità”. Louise Lateau de Bois-d’Haine et Palma d’Oria (Paris, Victor Palmé, 1873, I-II.) The lively account of Imbert-Gourbeyre illustrates how these extraordinary phenomena have been received, interpreted and promoted by a wider circle of devout patrons. Imbert-Gourbeyre, after his acquaintance with the Belgian Louise Lateau, payed a visit to Palma in 1871, and dedicated to these two stigmatics a two volume set: Les stigmatisées. A self-professed enthusiastic promoter of a series of contemporary stigmatics, the medical professor of Clermont-Ferrand, Docteur A. In the climate of renewed Catholic sensibility for extraordinary supernatural phenomena in the 1860s, Palma’s fame soon extended abroad. Her stigmata disappeared in 1865, except for her side wound. From that moment on, respected as Beata Palma in her surroundings, the extraordinary phenomena multiplied around her: ecstasies, visions, reception of the Host from Heavens into her mouth, apocalyptic prophecies. The paper will examine the case of an Italian local celebrity, Palma Mattarelli, born in 1825, and at the significant age of 33, in 18 appeared with the five wounds of Christ.
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