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Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, 1956-

Mrs. Mattingly's miracle : the prince, the widow, and the cure that shocked Washington City / Nancy Lusignan Schultz. - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The prince and the princess -- From St. Mary's County, southern Maryland, to the Federal City -- Thaumaturgus and priest -- A capital miracle -- Aftermath.

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.


English.

ISBN: 9780300171709 (electronic bk.) 0300171706 (electronic bk.) 1283096242 9781283096249 9786613096241 6613096245

Standard No.: 10.12987/9780300171709 doi

Source: 22573/ctt112m2h JSTOR 5F1D3EEF-CA71-488A-A931-D448EB7DAEEF OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101558001 DNLM

Subjects--Personal Names:
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.
Mattingly, Ann, 1782?-1855.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Breast--Cancer--Patients--Washington (D.C.)
Miracles--Washington (D.C.)
Spiritual healing--Washington (D.C.)
Patients.
Breast--Diseases.
Spiritual healing.
Christianity.
Humanities.
Alternative medicine.
Therapeutics, Physiological.
Religion.
Skin--Diseases.
Victims.
History.
Clergy.
Diseases.
Therapeutics.
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
Biography
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
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Sein--Cancer--Patients--Washington (D.C.)
Miracles--Washington (D.C.)
Guérison par la foi--Washington (D.C.)
Patients.
Sein--Maladies.
Guérison par la foi.
Christianisme.
Médecine--Histoire--1500-
Sciences humaines.
Médecines parallèles.
Religion.
Peau--Maladies.
Victimes.
Histoire.
Clergé.
Médecine--Histoire--19e siècle.
Maladies.
Thérapeutique.
patients.
Christianity.
humanities.
religion (discipline)
history (discipline)
clergy.
disease.
illness.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--Cancer.
MEDICAL--History.
Breast--Cancer--Patients.
Health.
Miracles.
Spiritual healing.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
North America.
United States
North America
Amérique du Nord.
Washington (D.C.)

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RZ406.M3 / S38 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 362.196/99449009753

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2011 D-597 WB 900