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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783315303321

Autore

Jonas Raymond <1954->

Titolo

The tragic tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War [[electronic resource] /] / Raymond Jonas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-76312-1

9786612763120

0-520-93828-3

1-59734-947-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

282/.092

B

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Sacred Heart, Devotion to - France - History of doctrines - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Great War in the European imagination -- Miracle or "miracle?" -- Carnal vision and saintly ambition -- Spiritual patronage and a mission to save France -- Silent eruptions : Claire and her public -- In the footsteps of Joan -- A kind of apotheosis : Claire goes to Paris -- Claire's story goes public : the Sacred Heart and the Union Sacrée -- Consecration by proxy -- The unraveling -- The unmaking of a saint -- Prologue as epilogue : the story of Jonas.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame as a modern-day Joan of Arc at the height of World War I. Claire experienced her first vision after a childhood trauma in which her mother locked her in a closet to break her stubborn willfulness. She developed her visionary gifts with the aid of spiritual directors and, by the age of twenty, she had come to believe that Jesus wanted France consecrated to the Sacred Heart. Claire believed that if France undertook this devotion, symbolized by adding the image of the Sacred Heart to the French flag, it would enjoy rapid victory in the war. From



her modest origins to her spectacular ascent, Claire's life and times are deftly related with literary verve and insight in a book that gives a rare view of the French countryside during the Great War.