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Unmasking A Medieval Pseudo-Saint: The Peculiar Story Of Sibylla Of Marsal In Richer's Gesta Senoniensis Ecclesiae, Courtney Anne Smith Jan 2019

Unmasking A Medieval Pseudo-Saint: The Peculiar Story Of Sibylla Of Marsal In Richer's Gesta Senoniensis Ecclesiae, Courtney Anne Smith

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the story of a thirteenth-century woman from the diocese of Metz, named Sibylla of Marsal, as the contemporary monk and chronicler Richer of Senones recounts it in his Gesta Senoniensis Ecclesiae. According to Richer, Sibylla feigned sanctity using various props--including a demon costume that she wore to terrify villagers--and was locally venerated as a holy woman before authorities discovered her fraudulence. This thesis offers the first full-length study of Sibylla and is the first study of this fascinating case to focus on Richer's perspective. After establishing the single extant thirteenth-century manuscript of the Gesta Senoniensis Ecclesiae--Paris, BnF …


Stones And Bones: Catholic Responses To The 1812 Collapse Of The Mission Church Of Capistrano, Karin Vélez Nov 2017

Stones And Bones: Catholic Responses To The 1812 Collapse Of The Mission Church Of Capistrano, Karin Vélez

Faculty Publications

This essay delves into the 1812 collapse of the Great Stone Church at California’s Mission of San Juan Capistrano and its aftermath to consider how early modern Catholics in the greater Iberian world approached the material remains of ruined churches that contained human victims. Questions explored include how Franciscan missionaries reported and reacted to the calamity, why the casualties were disproportionately Indian and female, and what survivors did with the physical remnants of broken churches. Churches that collapsed on worshippers in Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima and Lisbon prior to 1812 are mustered for comparison. Overall, a pattern emerges of Catholics separating …


Testimonies Of Violence: Images Of Franciscan Martyrs In The Provinces Of New Spain, Emmanuel Ortega Jul 2017

Testimonies Of Violence: Images Of Franciscan Martyrs In The Provinces Of New Spain, Emmanuel Ortega

Art & Art History ETDs

In the middle of the eighteenth century, Franciscan martyr portraits became popular in monastic spaces of the Spanish viceroyalties of central Mexico. To visually construct the meritorious life of these martyrs, artists drew inspiration from hagiographic chronicles that described various Native rebellions, which featured the graphic depiction of the gruesome deaths of friars. The prospect of martyrdom enticed novices to follow in their footsteps in service to God, but also to the Crown, whose presence in the northern territories of New Spain intensified during the period of the Bourbon reforms. In my dissertation I explore this propagandistic approach to martyr …


Motus 1975, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1975

Motus 1975, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1975 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1974, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1974

Motus 1974, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1974 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1973, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1973

Motus 1973, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1973 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1972, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1972

Motus 1972, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1972 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1971, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1971

Motus 1971, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1971 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1970, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1970

Motus 1970, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1970 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1969, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1969

Motus 1969, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1969 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1968, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1968

Motus 1968, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1968 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine


Motus 1967, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1967

Motus 1967, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1967 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1966, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1966

Motus 1966, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1966 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1965, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1965

Motus 1965, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1965 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1964, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1964

Motus 1964, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1964 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1963, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1963

Motus 1963, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1963 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.


Motus 1962, St. Francis College History Collection Jan 1962

Motus 1962, St. Francis College History Collection

Yearbooks

1962 yearbook of St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine.