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- The Convulsionnaires (or Convulsionaries) of Saint-Médard was a group of 18th-century French religious pilgrims who exhibited convulsions and later constituted...
- radical convulsionnaire phenomenon is difficult to state with precision. Brian Strayer noted, in Suffering Saints, almost all convulsionnaires were Jansenists...
- considerable and threatening re****tion. Under Louis XV, around 250 Catholic convulsionnaires, often called Jansenists, were detained in the Bastille for their religious...
- et autres (1936) Cartouche bandit parisien, suivi de Rose Blanchon convulsionnaire, deux enfants de Paris sous Louis XV (1944) Allo, allo, ici la mort ...
- chapel along the way, the pilgrims encounter a group of Jansenist convulsionnaire nuns who are nailing one of their group to a cross. Outside, a Jesuit...
- remained seven years at the Oratory and became a Jansenist and a zealous convulsionnaire then left the community with feelings that made him consider favorably...
- Mar., 1994, 104. Brian E. Strayer, Suffering Saints: Jansenists and Convulsionnaires in France, 1640-1799, (Sus**** Academic Press, 2012), 67. Tedeschi,...
- burial gained a re****tion for supernatural events and the basis of the Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard where he is buried. In 1731 there was a movement by...
- of a more radical group of clerics known as the Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard. The Convulsionnaires believed that going into a trance and having convulsions...
- people. The most well-known event described by Hecker was that of the Convulsionnaires in France. After his book on the dancing mania, Hecker's research on...