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He did it, he said, for pious reasons, in order to collect alms to redeem the Christian captives in North Africa, to have Masses said for those in mortal sin, and to move people to pray the Rosary. The Inquisition finally turned him over to the civil authorities, judging him simply lazy and wanting to eat and drink without working. In the first years of this century the sweating of a Crucifix was proclaimed There were rogations, processions, vows, and alms.
In in the town of La Guardia in Andalusia when an image of Our Lady of the Rosary in the Dominican convent wept blood, the liquid in question was found to be pomegranate juice. The royal government, backed by the bishop, responded firmly, dispersing the crowd and arresting those who had started the rumor. The author, October 24, People in Osa de la Vega, where the Veronica sweated in , considered that the painting spared them from the great flu epidemic of When a Republican commission sought to re-move the Christ of the Miracles from El Bonillo for safekeeping in , a group of women defended it, and they were jailed as a result.
The Franco regime subsequently awarded them medals Fig. While in jail, two of them told me forty years later, they saw a cross in the sky, framed against the moon. After the Civil War the mural was carefully repainted. One cannot rule out, for instance, the existence of a kind of pharmaceutical lore, circulating among the dispensaries of certain religious orders.
The Augustinians, erstwhile keepers of the Christ of Burgos reputed to sweat every Friday , 74 had a conspicuous presence in several cases. These image activations dramatically recharged the metaphor. While the events were rare enough to provoke great excitement, they were part of the established cultural repertoire of early modern Catholic Europe. Although a few of the images that temporarily came to life may have done so with an initial advantage—because they were reputedly not made by humans, in the case of Veronicas, or were the replica of an image known to be powerful, in the case of the Christ of Burgos in Cabra del Santo Cristo 75 —the vast majority of those that did so were simple, workaday crucifixes or paintings, unremarkable and hitherto unremarked.
That indeed was and is an important lesson of most of these events, that every image, in addition to representing the divine, could embody it. The care with which small crucifixes or Baby Jesuses were willed from one woman to another is an indication of the intensity of these devotions in the home or in the dressing room.
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But there is no implication or expectation that others may share these private experiences. The presence of divine liquid on a statue is qualitatively different because it is verifiable by others, and in the episodes here that started in the private sphere, the news passed immediately from home to street. Christ at the Column, early sixteenth century.
Courtesy of Hermandad de Ntra. And along with these images, their approved miracle boards, their paintings, their miracle days on which their activation was recalled in sermons, so too waited the general idea of image animation for new public cycles. The Virgin of the Miracle, patroness of Cocentaina Alicante. Postcard, , on the silver anniversary of the coronation, from a dentist in Cocentaina to student in Santiago de Compostela. Felipe Pereda, August The Christ of Agony in the parish church of Limpias in Cantabria first showed signs of life during a Capuchin mission Fig.
On the first day there was a sweat-like condensation on the image, but that only happened once, and the miracle people came to expect was movement in the eyes, mouth, face, and changes in complexion, as though the image was looking at people, responding to them, or, eventually, dying in the throes of agony Fig.
Over the next few years a quarter of a million people went to see it, and about one in fifteen saw it come alive Fig. The diocese opened an investigation and concluded that the visions were subjective and the fruit of suggestion and artificial lighting, but never made a public pronouncement. Official pilgrimages led by bishops tailed off, and in the mid- to late—s pilgrimages were mainly from outside Spain, including biannual pilgrimages by Austrians and Hungarians. Many of the pilgrims stopped to visit the Habsburg imperial family in exile in the Spanish Basque Country.
Postecard sampler, Limpias, c. Pilgrimage group at Limpias, undated. The bleeding statues of Templemore, Ireland, Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.
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And others followed Limpias: Marie Mesmin and the oratory of the Santissima Bambina, Bordeaux. The Santissima Bambina of Marie Mesmin. She had a Lourdes image that allegedly wept from until , when it was confiscated by Church authorities. She replaced it with an Italian Baby Mary that wept from until These included successive pictures of the Sacred Heart as well as other images and consecrated hosts. These phenomena occurred in Mirebeau-en-Poitou, as well as on a visit in to Aix-la-Chapelle Fig. The priest distributed miniature photographs, daubed with the images' blood, as talismans for soldiers.
The bleeding Sacred Heart of Mirebeau-en-Poitou c. Maltese-Siracusa, all rights reserved. For four days starting on August 29, , the image gave off what seemed to be human tears, 87 first in the Jannuso bedroom, then in the police station, then again in the house, purportedly convincing Communists, Freemasons and Protestants. An initial commission including a chemist, a medical doctor, priests and police officers examined the image and tasted and tested the tears, which seemed to be human.
The image was moved to a niche outside on the street, and on September 19 escorted by the archbishop to the Piazza Euripide, where people continued to touch it with flowers, photographs, or cotton sold at the site, all potential relics for grace and healing. Dozens of cures ensued. Franciscans relaying flowers, pictures, handkerchiefs and cotton to be touched to the image, Piazza Euripide.
Walter Carone, Paris Match, Oct. The long-distance distribution of blessed cotton was similar to that of Lourdes water. In Spain a shrine to the Siracusa weeping image was set up in Ciudad Real, and the priest there distributed pieces of cotton that that been touched to the Siracusa image Fig. Photography better communications, mass market photo journalism, radio and television, sped up and internationalized the news and the model, for which there was a ready and eager audience during the struggle between Catholics and Communist Parties across Europe.
Envelope containing Siracusa cotton relic distributed from Ciudad Real, Spain. Holy card with color photo taken at Siracusa Aug. In the Entrecruces case diocesan commission of skeptical priests sent the tears for chemical analysis and found they were largely water. Anne teaching the child Mary to read. He broke off and reglued one of St. Anne's fingers, and during a poker game on December 26 put the image next to him for good luck.
When he lost the hand he was playing he kicked the image over, snapping off the finger.
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On December 28, he pricked his own finger, bloodied the broken hand of the image, then pretended to discover the miracle, with the idea that the image was bleeding because of his blasphemy Fig. As at Siracusa, a film crew came to document the story Fig. When local interest waned, he joined forces with a like-minded Florentine and exhibited the statue in Paris. The Florentine absconded with the money of wealthy believers.
He finally sold the story of how he had invented the whole enterprise and how he was just as surprised as anybody by the miracles to the sensationalist newspaper France-Dimanche Fig. There was a related spate in Ireland on the heels of Medjugorje enthusiasm, from February to the fall of but without liquid: If a manifestation receives publicity the meaning attributed to it quickly transcends the local community drawn out by specialized interpreters into a national or world-wide interpretive etiology often involving the end times.
The depictions of these miracles in seventeenth-century Spain were highly controlled and permitted only after episcopal approval. In the twentieth century, photographs and films became evidence in the deliberative process both for Church authorities and for public opinion. Sign in street stand, Siracusa. Walter Carone, Paris Match , Oct. Perhaps because of refined methods for chemical analysis, and perhaps with a more human and less hieratic idea of the divinity, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic cases emphasize and accept as positive evidence that the blood, sweat or tears is human or as negative evidence that the blood is animal.
The liquid is tasted, if no longer applied to the eye. The relic on cotton is touched to the wound and carried for protection. This universal, never-ending demand for the divine touch is more than enough to make it likely that images exude in the future, although the possibility of official certification has dramatically declined. The idea of a new beacon for healing and consolation in the constellation of grace remains, however truncated most of the recent attempts have been to achieve it through animated images. Anne of Entrevaux swear that they saw the image move and embrace them. A bottle of cotton soaked in tears, Siracusa.
Paris Match , Sept. The communication of gods through their images, sharing their pain, their wounds, their sorrow and their travails through blood, sweat and tears, takes the process one step farther, crossing the cognitive, emotional, and physiological boundaries between human and supernatural beings. Art and Belief in the Spanish World , ed. Ronda Kasl, whose help and that of Suso Mourelo in locating illustrations I most gratefully acknowledge.
The list in Christian, Religiosidad local , , —39, is perforce haphazard, and as a general rule the more one looks the more one finds. E si estos que esto leuantan no hiziessen en ello otro mal: See also Colomer, Historia. In the subsequent investigation, people said that the crucifix had been noticed in the past to change expressions, whether happy, favorable, sad, afflicted, or angry, and at times the very fabric of the image seemed to be transformed. The first published news of this sweating in Spain came in I saw it in the parish archive. Juan Baptista Davia, age about seventy, April 14, , ibid.
I am grateful to Katrina Olds for this reference and transcription. It consists of 98 folios. There is also another, page transcript, made in , and a record book of the alms to the image with entries for , and the period to Sepulcro de Calatayud, Apeo del archivo, Cajon de las escrituras de la encomienda de Nuebalos no. Belluga had testimony taken from twenty-four witnesses on August 11 and related the weeping to profanations by British troops in Alicante.
Some said the sweat appeared because the saint did not want to be moved, others, because the saint was glad to be moved. Still others said the sweat was liquid left over from when the face was washed, which picked up the light from candles on the altar. Luys Sanchez, , facsimile ed. Con lo que le commobio y a no arrimarse a la pared del cortijo ubiera caido. Other images with certified activations have been eclipsed by competing devotions who worked their own miracles. If the Christ at the Column upstaged Our Lady of the Peace in the drought of , in , Our Lady of the Peace regained her preeminence by multiplying the wine in an Alcobendas house, and today it is her feast, not that of the Christ or its sweating, that is celebrated.
See Gilles Lameire, La Vierge en pleurs. The lithograph wept daily from Sept 18 to Oct. Emilio Hortelano, interview, July 21, Central University Press publishes books on the political philosophy and practices of open society, history, legal studies, nationalism, human rights, conflict resolution, gender studies, Jewish studies economics, medieval studies, literature, and international relations. Version classique Version mobile. Central European University Press. Toribia del Val and the Mysterious Wayfarer of Casas de Presence, Absence and the Supernatural in Postcard and F Rechercher dans le livre.
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