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...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...
...Shrove Tuesday, 1926, Therese Neumann's eyes began to bleed. Stigmata appeared under her heart. On Good Friday stigmata appeared on her feet and hands, later on her head. Doctors were baffled. Then on every Friday, from morning until midafternoon, Therese Neumann re-enacted the Passion of Jesus Christ, bleeding profusely, babbling in aramaic, Hebrew and Latin as well as her own peasant dialect...
...well attested. The late Sir William Osier called stigmata, in general, manifestations of hysteria, probably produced by autosuggestion. The Roman Catholic Church takes no official position at all during the lifetime of a stigmatic, conducts exhaustive inquiries afterwards. Last November steps were taken to discourage pilgrimages to Therese Neumann, as was done with similar European cases (TIME...
...Roman Catholic Church has lately noticed in rural Europe an increase of morbid, ultra-mystical worshippers and of strange fanatical figures deemed holy by the ignorant. Fairly well-known by Catholics throughout the world are the German peasant Therese Neumann and the Italian Franciscan Padre Pio, both of whom are reputed to have stigmata on their bodies. In Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical...
EDWARD B. COPE RAY NEUMANN BEN BAINES WM. F. SALATHE...