Biographie de Louise Lateau : la stigmatisee de Bois-d'Haine

Paris ; Leipzig :: H. Casterman, 1877. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 3d ed. amelioree et Augmentee. old rebinding in black cloth red roan spine, marbled endpaapers,286 pages, text in French, ex library with remains of sticker at lower spine, a tight copy.Louise Lateau, 1850 -1883 was born in Belgium at Bois-d'Haine,she was a stigmatist and mystic. Her stigmata is well documented since she was examined over a three year period by more than a hundred doctors and twice as many theologians.During a cholera epidemic in Bois-D'Haine in 1866, the sixteen year old Louise Lateau nursed six of the epidemic victims. The next year she became seriously ill herself and remained ill until 1868. In April of that year she was so ill that she received the last rites. Ten days later she had her first experience of the stigmata. From 24 April 1868, pain recurred every Friday and blood began to flow from her left side and feet.; On 8 May, blood came from both hands as if from nail wounds; On 25 September, the stigmatism was completed by the appearance on the breast of four small spots of blood as if coming from four pinpricks to the heart. All these wounds appear without apparent cause on the night of Thursday to Friday and disappear the next night. It will do this every Friday until her death in 1883. Size: 8 Vo,.( 19 cm).