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Died. Therese Neumann, 64, a zealously religious Bavarian spinster who, beginning in 1926, appeared to suffer stigmata similar to the crucified Christ, bleeding from wounds below her eyes, her heart and on her hands; of a heart attack; in Konnersreuth, Germany. Therese permitted herself to be viewed on Good Fridays by Roman Catholics, many of whom considered her to be a living saint; the Vatican remained neutral and doctors considered her affliction a nervous disorder conditioned by her religious fervor...
...placid little Bavarian village of Konnersreuth last fortnight flocked thousands of men & women and uniformed G.I.s. They came, as people have come for a generation, to witness the strange Good Friday manifestations that have taken place for 25 years upon the body of a peasant woman named Therese Neumann. Each Good Friday (and on about 25 other Fridays through the year), chunky, good-natured Therese has bled from her eyes and the wound in her side, or from the stigmata in her hands and feet, or from all these at once. Eight marks have appeared on her head...
...crucified Christ, have long been studied, never satisfactorily explained. The first and most celebrated case of stigmatization was St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226). Since then at least 341 cases have been recorded, 300 of them women. Most famous 20th Century case was Theresa Neumann, a German, of Konnersreuth, whose bleeding wounds were witnessed by thousands during the 1920s-303s and became the object of scientific study and investigation...
Whether belief in the Peasant of Konnersreuth should be merely belief in her mystical experiences, or whether it should include her extraordinary five-year fast was a question for lively discussion last week in the Roman Catholic press of Germany...
Therese Neumann was born in 1898. eldest of the ten children of Ferdinand Neumann, a poor peddler and tailor of Konnersreuth in northern Bavaria. Never over-zealous in the practice of her faith, she was blinded and paralyzed in 1918. after helping extinguish a fire in the house where she was employed. On May 17. 1925, the canonization day of St. Therese of Lisieux (''Little Flower"), Fraulein Neumann regained her sight. Eight days later she called for the priest of Konnersreuth. When he arrived she arose and walked. Later in the year she was taken ill with what...
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