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From an Experiencer to a Saintly Man: Losing Biography, Gaining Hagiography in the Accounts of Marian Apparitions in Early Modern Poland

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Tomasz Wiślicz, for his part, focuses on the apparitions of Virgin Mary in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in his article ‘From an Experiencer to a Saintly Man: Losing Biography, Gaining Hagiography in the Accounts of Marian Apparitions in Early Modern Poland’. By using devotional prints and manuscripts related to Marian shrines, Wiślicz examines the transformation and use of the life stories of visionaries who gave rise to the shrines. He finds that popularity among pilgrims to the shrines made the life stories become more detailed and hagiographic serving the needs of pastoral care, especially of people of the lower strata.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cf. Barnay (2002).

  2. 2.

    See Zimdars-Swartz (1991).

  3. 3.

    Turner (2009) and Drażyk (2002).

  4. 4.

    Christian (1973), Claverie (2003, 2009), and Sjöström (2010).

  5. 5.

    Maunder (2016, 42–44).

  6. 6.

    See Christian (1996) and Kaufman (2005).

  7. 7.

    Albert-Llorca (2001, 55).

  8. 8.

    Hvidt (2007, 277).

  9. 9.

    Chiron (1995, 44).

  10. 10.

    Constitutiones (1593, 8).

  11. 11.

    Góralski (1986, 8–9).

  12. 12.

    Library of the National Ossoliński Institute in Wrocław (Biblioteka Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu), hereafter BO, MS 1444, 47.

  13. 13.

    Archdiocesan Archives in Przemyśl (Archiwum Archidiecezjalne w Przemyślu), hereafter AAP, MS 180, fol. 37v and 46; Ataman (1936, 162).

  14. 14.

    Klonowic (1600, 46–47).

  15. 15.

    Klonowic (1600, 47–48).

  16. 16.

    BO, MS 5799, fol. 159.

  17. 17.

    Wójcik (1990, 11–14).

  18. 18.

    Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Krakow (Archiwum Kurii Metropolitalnej w Krakowie), hereafter AKMK, MS AVCap. 25, fasc. 3, 110.

  19. 19.

    Obruśnik (2014, 139).

  20. 20.

    Majewski (1753, 27–39).

  21. 21.

    Rusecki (1996, 474).

  22. 22.

    Carroll (1985), Dierkens (1991), Taves (2009), and Bromley and Bobbitt (2011).

  23. 23.

    Joyeux and Laurentin (1985).

  24. 24.

    Cf. Jansen and Notermans (2010, 82–83).

  25. 25.

    Bogdalski (1929, 31–32).

  26. 26.

    Śnieżyńska-Stolot (1988, 177) and Obruśnik (2005, 175).

  27. 27.

    Szykuła-Żygawska (2015).

  28. 28.

    Kracik (1975).

  29. 29.

    Kracik (1975).

  30. 30.

    AKMK, MS AVCap. 25, fasc. 3, 110.

  31. 31.

    Majewski (1753).

  32. 32.

    Majewski (1753, 29–30).

  33. 33.

    Majewski (1753, 39).

  34. 34.

    Obruśnik (2014).

  35. 35.

    Bogdalski (1929, 10).

  36. 36.

    Obruśnik (2014, 156).

  37. 37.

    Bogdalski (1929, 11–29).

  38. 38.

    Obruśnik (2014, 158).

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Wiślicz, T. (2019). From an Experiencer to a Saintly Man: Losing Biography, Gaining Hagiography in the Accounts of Marian Apparitions in Early Modern Poland. In: Kuuliala, J., Peake, RM., Räisänen-Schröder, P. (eds) Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material. Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15553-7_5

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