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In Brazil, for example, good and bad spirits – invoked or spurned by a priest – are a central element of Candomblé and Umbanda, syncretic creeds that link elements from Catholicism and African and indigenous cults. Similar ideas are found in Spiritism, a belief system that reached its peak elsewhere in the world in the first two decades of the twen

María de Agreda’s mystical journeys were declared by the church to be authentic and she was given the consideration of “the highest rank among the mystics of past ages.”22

She was a confirmed iconodule, and in 843, in her son’s name, she revoked the iconoclast laws of the past three decades and reinstituted the use of icons in Church worship and private devotion once and for all.

ST. LYDWINE OF SCHIEDAM (d. 1433), a victim soul who endured numerous afflictions that kept her perpetually bedridden, was once visited by the prior of the monastery of St. Elizabeth, which is situated near Brielle on the Island of Doorne. The Saint gave him a description so detailed of the cells, the chapel, the chapter house, the refectory and th

It was while besieging Lavaur in the spring of 1211, that Simon’s tactics reached new extremes of cruelty. No doubt enraged by the fact that reinforcements from Germany had been wiped out by Raymond Roger of Foix at Montgey near St Félix the day before they were expected to arrive at Lavaur, Simon’s forces breached the walls of the town on 3 May. W

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Catharism was, in the years after the fall of Quéribus, a chimerical presence. According to the testimony of Stéphanie de Châteauverdun, a noble and Cathar Perfect from the Sabartès, what top-level Cathars remained were living in the mountains. William Prunel was one such Perfect, whose career stretched from around 1258 until 1283. Despite the tire