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

• Autore: Jonas Raymond <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 282/.092; B
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918 - Religious aspects - Catholic Church; Sacred Heart, Devotion to - France - History of doctrines - 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: apotheosis; biography; childhood trauma; christianity; claire ferchaud; discussion books; downfall; european history; french countryside; french peasant; french war; historical nonfiction; historical visionaries; illustrated; jesus christ; joan of arc; life story; national fame; religious visions; sacred heart; spiritual development; spiritual directors; spiritual patronage; tragic history; visionary gifts; visions of jesus; war; world war i.; wwi
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The tragic tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War
• ISBN: 1-282-76312-1; 9786612763120; 0-520-93828-3; 1-59734-947-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819771003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II