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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.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The prince and the princess -- From St. Mary's County, southern Maryland, to the Federal City -- Thaumaturgus and priest -- A capital miracle -- Aftermath.
Note Print version record.
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.
Subject Mattingly, Ann, 1782?-1855 -- Health.
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich, Fürst, 1794-1849.
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Alexander Leopold Franz Emmerich, Fürst, 1794-1849. (OCoLC)fst00296789
Mattingly, Ann, 1782?-1855. (OCoLC)fst01636305
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Washington (D.C.)
Miracles -- Washington (D.C.)
Spiritual healing -- Washington (D.C.)
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
MEDICAL -- History.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00838293
Health. (OCoLC)fst00952743
Miracles. (OCoLC)fst01023535
Spiritual healing. (OCoLC)fst01130087
Washington (D.C.) (OCoLC)fst01204505
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.
Biographies as Topic.
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.
United States.
North America.
Other Form: Print version: Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, 1956- Mrs. Mattingly's miracle. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300118469 (DLC) 2010039308 (OCoLC)150348416
ISBN 9780300171709 (electronic bk.)
0300171706 (electronic bk.)
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