Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard
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Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard was a group of 18th-century French religious pilgrims who exhibited convulsions and later constituted a religious sect and a political movement. This practice originated at the tomb of François de Pâris, an ascetic Jansenist deacon who was buried at the cemetery of the parish of Saint-Médard in Paris. The convulsionnaires were associated with the Jansenist movement, which became more politically active after the papal bull Unigenitus officially banned the sect.
The connection between the larger French Jansenist movement and the smaller, more radical convulsionnaire phenomenon is difficult to state with precision. As historian Brian E. Strayer has noted, almost all of the convulsionnaires were Jansenists, but very few Jansenists embraced the convulsionnaire phenomenon.
See also
- Gravure représentant la guérison de Madeleine Durand et mettant en scène la douleur et la guérison, anonyme, c. 1730.[1]
- Age of Enlightenment
- Catholic Church
- convulsions
- Female hysteria
- Gallican Church
- Gallicanism
- History of Roman Catholicism in France
- Huguenots
- Religious ecstasy
- Sect
- St. Medardus
- Trance
- La vérité des miracles de M. François de Pâris (1737) Louis-Basile Carré de Montgeron, illustrated by Jean II Restout
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