The Virgin with the sword
Marian apparitions, religion and national identity in Alsace in the 1870s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16581127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Klein (0000-0002-7743-8399), Dennis B Klein (0000-0003-3891-4302, University College Cork, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 411-430 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1191 • E-ISSN: 1477-4542 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fh/crm051 |
| OpenAlex | W2149486655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Towards the end of summer 1872, an eleven-year-old girl went to see her former parish priest to tell him about visions she and her friends had been having. Her name was Odile Martin, and she came from Krüth (or Neubois in French), an Alsatian village in the Vosges foothills, west of the town of Schlettstadt (Sélestat). In her first vision, which occurred on 7 July 1872, she had seen some seventy to eighty Prussian soldiers surrounding a lady in white who wore a diadem and a necklace, each of which with a crucifix. ‘This Lady’, she recalled, ‘whom I now think to have been the Virgin Mary, held in her hands a sword with which she kept hitting the bowed heads of the soldiers with increasing force. Suddenly, I saw her traverse the troop and advance towards me, with her sword held down. Fear gripped me and I fled.’1
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Girl · Identity (music) · SWORD · Theology · Vision · White (mutation) · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |