From Penitence to Charity : Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris.

When in 1570 the widow Marie Du Drac took to a life of godly devotion, fasting, wearing hairshirts, and doing good works at hospitals, prisons, and with the poor, her contemporaries thought her behavior bizarre. Her family and friends worried for her health. Although not a nun, this eliteParisian sp...

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Main Author: Diefendorf, Barbara B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004
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Summary:When in 1570 the widow Marie Du Drac took to a life of godly devotion, fasting, wearing hairshirts, and doing good works at hospitals, prisons, and with the poor, her contemporaries thought her behavior bizarre. Her family and friends worried for her health. Although not a nun, this eliteParisian spend hours every day in contemplative prayer and related to her spiritual advisors her mystical visions and sins against God. While Du Drac's ascetic practices and penitential spirituality were considered odd in her own time, half a century later they were broadly adopted by otherdevotes, also elit.
Physical Description:1 online resource (657 pages)
ISBN:9780198025580
0198025580
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.