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Author Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, 1956-

Title Mrs. Mattingly's miracle : the prince, the widow, and the cure that shocked Washington City / Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations
Contents The prince and the princess -- From St. Mary's County, southern Maryland, to the Federal City -- Thaumaturgus and priest -- A capital miracle -- Aftermath
Summary In 1824 in Washington, D.C., Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sickbed free from agonizing pain and able to enjoy an additional thirty-one years of life. The Mattingly miracle purportedly came through the intervention of a charismatic German cleric, Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, who was credited already with hundreds of cures across Europe and Great Britain. Though nearly forgotten today, Mattingly's astonishing healing became a polarizing event. It heralded a rising tide of anti-Catholicism in the United States that would culminate in violence over the next two decades. Nancy L. Schultz deftly weaves analysis of this episode in American social and religious history together with the astonishing personal stories of both Ann Mattingly and the healer Prince Hohenlohe, around whom a cult was arising in Europe. Schultz's riveting book brings to light an early episode in the ongoing battle between faith and reason in the United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mattingly, Ann, 1782?-1855 -- Health
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich, Fürst, 1794-1849.
SUBJECT Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich, Fürst, 1794-1849 fast
Mattingly, Ann, 1782?-1855 fast
Subject Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Washington (D.C.)
Miracles -- Washington (D.C.)
Spiritual healing -- Washington (D.C.)
Patients.
Breast -- Diseases.
Spiritual healing.
Christianity.
Humanities.
Alternative medicine.
Therapeutics, Physiological.
Religion.
Skin -- Diseases.
Victims.
History.
Clergy.
Diseases.
Therapeutics.
Patients
Breast Diseases
Mid-Atlantic Region
Spiritual Therapies
Persons
Christianity
Publication Components
History, Modern 1601-
Neoplasms by Site
Humanities
Occupational Groups
Complementary Therapies
Religion
Named Groups
Publication Characteristics
Skin Diseases
Neoplasms
Catholicism
Breast Neoplasms
Survivors
History
Clergy
Biography
District of Columbia
Faith Healing
History, 19th Century
Disease
Therapeutics
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Americas
Geographic Locations
Geographicals
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
patients.
Christianity.
humanities.
religion (discipline)
history (discipline)
clergy.
disease.
illness.
treating (health care function)
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
MEDICAL -- History.
Victims
Therapeutics, Physiological
Therapeutics
Skin -- Diseases
Religion
Patients
Humanities
History
Diseases
Clergy
Christianity
Breast -- Diseases
Alternative medicine
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients
Health
Miracles
Spiritual healing
SUBJECT North America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092455
United States
North America
Subject North America
Washington (D.C.)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010039308
ISBN 9780300171709
0300171706
1283096242
9781283096249
9786613096241
6613096245