Word: surin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...execution, one of two friars who had helped torture Grandier came down sick, passed into convulsions and not long afterward died in despair, knocking the crucifix from his confessor's hand. His colleague lasted a few years more, but soon went insane, and died so. Father Jean-Joseph Surin, the great Jesuit contemplative who finally cured Sister Jeanne, did so only at the cost of becoming himself possessed. Sister Jeanne, however, with her flair for the dramatic, became a celebrity, and toured France to show off some handwriting God had supposedly done on her body...