Memoiren einer Besessenen

By Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Bruce Novak

Book Overview

Es war im Laufe des Jahres 1526, als sich in Loudun, das zu jener Zeit zu den bedeutendsten St?dten Poitous z?hlte, eine Anzahl von Ursulinerinnen niederlie . Dieser Orden war erst vor kurzer Zeit gegr?ndet worden. Die P?pste Paul III. und Gregor XIII. hatten ihn anerkannt, und dank einer k?niglichen Verf?gung, die durch Heinrich de Goudi, Bischof von Paris, vermittelt worden, war den Ursulinerinnen das Recht verliehen worden, in ganz Frankreich Kl?ster zu gr?nden. Sie machten den umfassendsten Gebrauch von diesem Rechte; bald hernach waren sie in Bordeaux, wo der Kardinal de Sourdis sie unter seinen ganz besonderen Schutz nahm. Von da kamen sie im Jahre 1618 nach Poitiers, einige Jahre sp?ter lie en sich acht der frommen Schwestern in Loudun nieder. Der Bischof selbst hatte sie dazu veranla t, da die Honoratioren der Stadt ihn dazu gedr?ngt hatten. Die Nonnen mieteten f?r den bescheidenen Preis von zweihundertf?nfzig Franken ein zwar ger?umiges, aber v?llig verwahrlostes und h? liches Haus in der Stra e Paquin. Dieses Haus war schon seit langer Zeit von keiner lebenden Seele bewohnt gewesen. Die alten Frauen bekreuzigten sich, wenn sie vor?berkamen und erz?hlten, da b?se Geister darin umgingen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: B0BTBBHNZV
• ISBN13: 9791041905065
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Culturea
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"

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