Catholic Patriotism and Suffering in the Wartime Letters of the Belgian Mystic Berthe Petit
Abstract This article focuses on the use of patriotic feelings and shared experiences of suffering to promote a new devotion. Studying her wartime letter-writing campaign, we examine the strategies that the Belgian mystic Berthe Petit (1870-1943) adopted to promote the devotion of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. By examining the letter writing of Petit and her father confessor during the Great War, we will show how, in 1909, the campaign initially focused on her own mystical experiences and corporeal suffering, but shifted during the war to emphasize that the future of Belgium, Fra... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Trajecta. Religion, Culture and Society in the Low Countries ; volume 29, issue 2, page 161-189 ; ISSN 0778-8304 |
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Amsterdam University Press
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Schlagwörter: | General Earth and Planetary Sciences / General Environmental Science |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26906920 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/tra2020.2.003.vano |