TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jonas,Raymond Anthony
TI  - The tragic tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War
SN  - 9780520938281
AV  - BX4705.F37 J66 2005eb
U1  - 282/.092B 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Ferchaud, Claire,
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Sacred Heart, Devotion to
KW  - France
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - Dévotion au Sacré-Cœur
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - General
KW  - War
KW  - fast
KW  - Visioenen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Great War in the European imagination -- Miracle or "miracle?" -- Carnal vision and saintly ambition -- Spiritual patronage and a mission to save France -- Silent eruptions : Claire and her public -- In the footsteps of Joan -- A kind of apotheosis : Claire goes to Paris -- Claire's story goes public : the Sacred Heart and the Union Sacrée -- Consecration by proxy -- The unraveling -- The unmaking of a saint -- Prologue as epilogue : the story of Jonas; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame at the height of World War I as a modern-day Joan of Arc. From her modest origins to her spectacular ascent, Claire's life and times are deftly related with literary verve and insight in a book that gives a rare view of the French countryside during the Great War. Claire experienced her first vision of Jesus after a childhood trauma in which her mother locked her in a closet to break her stubborn willfulness. She developed her visionary gifts with the aid of
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