- The
Convulsionnaires (or Convulsionaries) of Saint-Médard was a
group of 18th-century
French religious pilgrims who
exhibited convulsions and
later constituted...
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radical convulsionnaire phenomenon is
difficult to
state with precision.
Brian Strayer noted, in
Suffering Saints,
almost all
convulsionnaires were Jansenists...
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considerable and
threatening re****tion.
Under Louis XV,
around 250
Catholic convulsionnaires,
often called Jansenists, were
detained in the
Bastille for
their religious...
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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...
- Mar., 1994, 104.
Brian E. Strayer,
Suffering Saints:
Jansenists and
Convulsionnaires in France, 1640-1799, (Sus****
Academic Press, 2012), 67. "Martyrs'...
- 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...
- et
autres (1936)
Cartouche bandit parisien,
suivi de Rose
Blanchon convulsionnaire, deux
enfants de
Paris sous
Louis XV (1944) Allo, allo, ici la mort ...
- Medard. Saint-Médard (disambiguation), a list of
places named after him
Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard
Catholic Church in
France Saint Medardus,
patron saint...
- 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...
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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...
